Thanks for a great rehearsal on Monday, especially for your diligence and patience to record all those Carmina movements, and to run the Bernstein at the very end of the rehearsal. I’ve passed the videos on to Leslie and Shelley and am awaiting feedback. More later this week as we look ahead to Monday.

As I’m looking ahead to July, I’m investigating some of the new, more modern arrangements of 1812 (especially those with full scores). We don’t own our own set, and it will be impossible to borrow a copy for July 4.

In so doing, I came across this YouTube of a band from Japan performing 1812. It’s worth a viewing. Enjoy the clarinet “choreography,” and the Kalinnikov-style antiphonal brass at the end. It’s a particularly clean and inspiring performance.