Hi everybody,
Great to see you again! Please read below.
Rehearsal Plan for Sunday, September 15
- 4:00pm-5:30pm: Tchaikovsky, Romeo & Juliet: beginning to letter [K] (goal tempo for fast passages for now: quarter note = 112)
- 5:30pm-5:45pm: break
- 5:54pm-7:00pm: Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3: Allegro (m.37) to m. 272. Goal tempo for now: half note = 100)
Optional Leadership Auditions due Thursday, 9/12
- If you’re interested on principal chairs, solos, or just want to show me your progress for future assignments, you’re welcome to send me a 3-minute video of your current best playing by the end of Thursday, 9/12. I will update our seating charts based on these optional auditions. Send your links to rgomez@playmys.org with the subject line “Leadership Audition.”
PDFs for “Orpheus Undone” now on the MYS Website
- As always, you can find practice PDFs or print your own replacement parts on your Online Music Library. The password is playmys.
- Missy Mazzoli’s Orpheus Undone is now on the online PDF library.
- Please listen to the whole piece and follow along with the full score. Here’s Part I and here’s Part II.
Program Note for “Orpheus Undone”
Orpheus Undone, an orchestral work commissioned in 2020 by the Chicago Symphony, is an exploration of two brief moments in the Orpheus myth – the moment that Eurydice dies, and the moment that Orpheus decides to follow his lover into the underworld. Constructed of two connected movements, Behold the Machine, O Death and We of Violence, We Endure, this work explores the baffling and surreal stretching of time in moments of trauma or agony. The movement titles come from Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus and this work uses small fragments of material from my 2019 ballet Orpheus Alive.
-Missy Mazzoli
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Happy practicing,
Dr. G.
MYS Symphony Orchestra Musicians | August 2024