I was writing them down on a legal pad, but it was taking too long and I was having a hard time reading my scribbles, plus it looked pretty rude, so I'm now imputing them into the notepad on my droid, which can be hidden behind my music stand. teeheehee.
At the beginning of this month (I know I'm behind. He really does say awesome things just about every rehearsal, which is 3x a week, but I don't always have time to post. Especially since we had the musical this weekend, meaning the 2 dress rehearsals were the week before, and each run-through took around 4-5 hours. Seriously DRAINING. Love the musical, and the cast and orchestra did great, we had an amazing turn-out, but we in the orchestra are so under-appreciated. You just want to do your part and go home. We shouldn't have to be there when they're not ready to run it. They hadn't worked with props, set changes, costume changes, over half the characters didn't know their lines...we pulled it together for the performances, but the dress rehearsals were a MESS.), Doc was giving one of the percussionists a hard time, but quickly recanted. "Poor guy's played snare drum all his life and now he's having to figure out chimes. It's like whack-a-mole, and they aren't even moving!"
*insert vision of moles popping out the top of the chimes*
Then later on, he gave us a strict commandment: "Thou shalt not leave giant spaces on bar lines! Fill in the silence guys!" We were really at fault with that one.
But of course, the trumpets needed attention all on their own. Whatever chord they were supposed to be playing, nobody could hear. Our ears were merely bleeding. Doc had this to say about it: ""Hard enough to get 2 trumpets in orchestra in tune, and now you've got 6 relatively proficient players..." I'm not sure if he was insulting the trumpets, or letting them off...relatively proficient?!
We ended the rehearsal with a section of a piece that was really soft and poignant, and suddenly we heard a crash symbol. *face palm* Doc looks over to the player, a new freshman girl and she says "Was that wrong?"
Immediately, Doc replied, "On so many levels!"
There was no coming back to rehearsal after that. lol.
Hobey-ho!
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