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Mar. 1st, 2002 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnYay, it's friday. What do I have planned? Rehearsal.
Then I'm coming home and sleeping.
Next Tuesday is the concert for the school strings program at Hamilton Place. I will of course be there helping Mrs. Braun's group. What I do is basically play really easy music up front and look overly emphatic about every important feature of the music as to cue to kids. It's called "leading", but in an absurd "for kidz" way. Then there's the mass group. About 600+ kids on stage playing a simplified version of the 1812 Overture Finale arragned for string orchestra. Now, that sounds like it might be painful.. but suprisingly the sounds always comes out pretty darn good. I think it's some property of human sound perception, that if you have tones off phase of each other they're preceived as the median. Or something like that.
Oh, and the chamber orchestra is performing too. We're doing our Grieg Folk Dances and the Hoe-down from Copland's Rodeo.
PS: We got a schoolarship from Toronto Kiwanas for our Grieg piece. One of five awarded out of like a few hundred ensembles playing. Pretty cool eh?
Then I'm coming home and sleeping.
Next Tuesday is the concert for the school strings program at Hamilton Place. I will of course be there helping Mrs. Braun's group. What I do is basically play really easy music up front and look overly emphatic about every important feature of the music as to cue to kids. It's called "leading", but in an absurd "for kidz" way. Then there's the mass group. About 600+ kids on stage playing a simplified version of the 1812 Overture Finale arragned for string orchestra. Now, that sounds like it might be painful.. but suprisingly the sounds always comes out pretty darn good. I think it's some property of human sound perception, that if you have tones off phase of each other they're preceived as the median. Or something like that.
Oh, and the chamber orchestra is performing too. We're doing our Grieg Folk Dances and the Hoe-down from Copland's Rodeo.
PS: We got a schoolarship from Toronto Kiwanas for our Grieg piece. One of five awarded out of like a few hundred ensembles playing. Pretty cool eh?
