Hi all,
Thank you to Mr. Adam Eccleston, who subbed for me on Sunday 9/15. I don’t expect to miss any more rehearsals! We will begin sectionals this coming Sunday, and will have them for the next three weeks in different combinations.
Rehearsal Plan for Sunday, September 22
- 4:00pm-5:30pm: Work on Missy Mazzoli‘s Orpheus Undone, Part 1: Behold the Machine (O Death).
- 5:30pm-5:45pm: break
- 5:45pm-7:00pm: SECTIONALS on Tchaikovsky. All sections should aim to cover the following passages:
- Allegro giusto (m. 112) to m.164
- Letter K to m.285
- Letter L to m.307
- Letter O to m. 368
- Letter S to Letter U.
Sectional split for 9/22:
- Violin 1
- Violin 2
- Viola
- Cello/Bass
- Winds/Brass/Percussion – Tchaikovsky (whole piece) with Dr. G.
LISTEN TO “Orpheus Undone” as you practice for Sunday
Please listen to the whole piece and follow along with the full score. Here’s Part I and here’s Part II. As you read above, we’ll focus on Part 1 this coming Sunday (9/22). You can also find links on the side bar in this page (or at the bottom if on mobile).
Concerto Competition
A reminder that the MYS Concerto Competition will be earlier this year. Pieces must be approved by me (e-mail me with questions). They should be 10 minutes or shorter. More details will be e-mailed in the coming days.
- Friday, October 18: videos due for preliminary round (accompanist required)
- Friday, November 1st (evening): final round (with live audience)
Extra/replacement parts 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.
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 photographed by Mike from Sheepscot | September 2024