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Post by hoxie on Dec 2, 2006 15:50:47 GMT
Good luck with your concert Nat! Think of us...our usual accompanist can't make it and we have a guy who doesn't watch the conductor or play the pieces properly instead...could be interesting The final rehearsal was an absolute disaster - he either got the wrong page, stopped, played in the wrong key, the wrong notes or played out of time....pray for miracles tonight! ;D
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Post by princessmoose on Dec 2, 2006 16:37:58 GMT
Just had our final rehearsal. One of the clarinets didn't turn up AGAIN, so I was basically asked to play in a piece this afternoon. Played it once through with whole orchestra, so the second time I play it will be in the actual concert. Good job it's not thaaat hard .
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Post by princessmoose on Dec 4, 2006 10:41:33 GMT
Apparantly I've just agreed to play in a lunchtime recital tomorrow, not seen the music yet .
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Post by caz on Dec 4, 2006 12:07:47 GMT
I appear to have agreed to play for the toddler's club christmas service silly me... and at the local day centre playing carols - how do I get roped in to these things?!
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Post by princessmoose on Dec 11, 2006 2:51:21 GMT
Another concert down. My solos were ok, Mendelssohn was fine, Beethoven, a little dodgy but so was the whole symphony .
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Post by Dulciana on Dec 11, 2006 9:45:28 GMT
Keep it up! You'll be ready for some Christmas Spirit by 24th! For our pupils' concert, in the last two days I've had three "Can **** go on early, please, as he's been invited to a party/we're going out for a meal/bla,bla,bla. I did this for one last June and seem to have opened the flood-gates, so I've just said no to them all this year! "If you can't stay and listen to everyone else, then you'd be best just to leave it." Amazingly, two out of the three have managed to make arrangements and will be there after all. But, really, I think it looks terrible if people just play and then discreetly sod off!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Dec 11, 2006 10:53:26 GMT
I appear to have agreed to play for the toddler's club christmas service silly me... and at the local day centre playing carols - how do I get roped in to these things?! Hehe. I did two of these last week at The Little Lambs Nursery. Aren't we just the lucky ones?
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Post by digby on Dec 11, 2006 11:30:54 GMT
I've just got back from dropping the kids at school, its 11.30. I got there at 8.30 and got persuaded to hang around to accompany 2 sax solos, a flute solo, make sure the procession of kids singing 'once in royal' were all at the same place and sort out the string quartet ready for tomorrows show - and I thought this year I could just sit down and watch it - Hey Ho!
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Post by Dulciana on Dec 11, 2006 12:31:02 GMT
Something similar happened to me last year, but now my youngest can walk in on his own while I drive off and wave. I flap in that sort of situation, because what a class teacher's idea of sight-readable is is not always the same as mine!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Dec 11, 2006 16:00:59 GMT
There are two Little Lambs Nurseries, in Gainsborough and Scunnthorpe. Last week's Nativities were in Gainsborough. I was hoping I had got away without Scunnthorpe because their 'keyboard' is a Bontempi (you would not think one of those abominations could possibly survive, yould you?) The owners are good friends of mine. I teach their son, James, and they never stop publicising my work, so I will do whatever I can for them any time. John phoned a few minutes ago to ask me to accompany the Nativity on Thursday. Sadly, I am taking Heidi to a counselling session and I cannot cancel that. As a replacement, I am going to do a CD of the songs tomorrow morning. Santa is going to get stuck up the chimney again. Poor Santa. ;D Poor me. 'When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney' has been revolving around my tiny mind ever since last week.
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Post by chocolatedog on Dec 11, 2006 23:12:05 GMT
I couldn't sleep last week as the words for Winter Wonderland were whirling round and round my mind...... plus Jingle Bells......plus I'm dreaming of a white Christmas etc etc ARGH!!!!!
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Post by anacrusis on Dec 11, 2006 23:42:30 GMT
I couldn't sleep last week as the words for Winter Wonderland were whirling round and round my mind...... plus Jingle Bells......plus I'm dreaming of a white Christmas etc etc ARGH!!!!! Aieeee - you've just managed to mention all my pet horrors! *tries to remember the time she and harpsidoc sang "Away in a Manger* to her parents, in approved fashion, tummies sticking out, hands folded, nicely flat, breathing in different places...etc*
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Post by caz on Dec 13, 2006 12:16:46 GMT
I appear to have agreed to play for the toddler's club christmas service silly me... and at the local day centre playing carols - how do I get roped in to these things?! Hehe. I did two of these last week at The Little Lambs Nursery. Aren't we just the lucky ones? Oh yes - sooooo lucky... I think I played variations on Jingle Bells for a good 10 minutes while Father Christmas gave out the presents! ;D Day Centre today - I think they might be a bit quieter hopefully!
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Post by caz on Dec 13, 2006 12:30:35 GMT
Oh and the Britten went ok even though I didn't learn it
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Dec 13, 2006 12:38:51 GMT
plus I'm dreaming of a white Christmas etc etc ARGH!!!!! That blasted crooner whose performance of this loathsome piece gets dragged out every Christmas should have been strangled at birth. Out of all the great morass of drivel that masquerades as song, this is the one I loathe the most. The instant I hear it in a shop\supermarket I walk straight out and do not return until after Jan 1st. My shopping choices tend to become limited quite quickly ;D
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