Hi everybody,
There will be no rehearsal this Sunday (Jan 14) due to anticipated inclement weather and freezing temperatures. Below you will find your homework for this Sunday in place of rehearsal; and our rehearsal plan for Sunday, January 21st.
Homework for Sunday, January 14
- Check new part assignments for our March concert.
- Print (or import to your tablet) your assigned parts for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 and/or our new YCP piece: Charlie Martin’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier. You can find these on our Music Library webpage (password is playmys).
- Listen to a recording of the Beethoven symphony while following along with your part. Please listen to the full symphony even if you don’t play some of the movements (like timpani, trumpets, trombones). There are no harp or piano parts, so if you play those instruments you are exempt from this task – though you might enjoy listening to the symphony anyway 🙂
- Listen to the computer-generated audio file for The Steadfast Tin Soldier, while following along with your part. Please note that this is the first draft of this piece, and while composer Charlie Martin has already submitted excellent materials with great attention to detail, there might be small changes to the parts.
- Start practicing both of these pieces, with special emphasis on what we will rehearse on Sunday, January 21 (see below).
NOTE FOR HORNS AND TRUMPETS!! — You will need to transpose in the Beethoven Symphony. Check your parts carefully. I want you to practice transposing on this piece.
Rehearsal Plan for Sunday, January 21 (including sectionals!)
- 4:00pm-5:30pm – Percussionists with Kevin Schlossman
- 4:00pm-4:45pm – Tutti minus percussion: Read-through of Charlie Martin’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- 4:45pm-5:30pm – Tutti minus percussion: Work on Beethoven‘s movements 5 and 4 (in that order)
5:30pm-5:45pm – Break
- 5:45pm-7:00pm – Sectionals on movements 5 and 4 of Beethoven
- Violin 1 with Chien Tan
- Violin 2 with Greg Ewer
- Viola with Amanda Grimm
- Cello/Bass with Nancy Ives
- Woodwinds + brass with RGR
Thank you, happy practicing and see you on Jan 21.
Best,
Dr. G.
Dave Miller (host of OPB’s “Think Out Loud”) with composer Elaina Stuppler, Jimmie Herrod and Raúl Gómez-Rojas on Friday, Jan 5, 2024