Bill Gross wrote: One annoying bit that a conductor of a local band I participate in is that we never play a piece through from beginning to end after the first reading. We'll wait until a performance to do that again. __________________________________
There is a community orchestra conductor in Sacramento that does the same thing. By the way, why is the last rehearsal called a "dress rehearsal"? Neither do we "dress" nor do we even play the pieces all the way through without stopping. I'm suspicious that conductors are compulsive about not playing pieces all the way through without stopping, as if they would lose control of the ensemble by doing so. Now in my new location (not Sacramento), I have a conductor that asked us to play a passage "with a poker face", so that we don't give the audience hints about what is to come. (No, we weren't playing the Surprise Symphony.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
