Please remember to go to Scarsdale Middle School tomorrow night for rehearsal. Directions are on the Rehearsal This Week page.

Elizabeth Weissman asked me to pass on this notice about a bassoon for sale. Contact information is included if you are interested. Please pass it on.

I am selling my son’s bassoon since he upgraded to a professional Puchner while studying at Michigan. If you know anyone who may be interested, or may have students interested, in this bassoon please forward the Craig’s List listing.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/msg/4448499466.html
Thank you in advance for your assistance,
Kerry Tilden
Kerry@LoveTheOcean.com
973-903-8989 (mobile)
Maplewood, NJ

We do not have access to TMH this week, and Jessica Slotwinski was kind enough to help us book Scarsdale Middle School for our rehearsal. This is not the Scarsdale school where we rehearsed in the dead of winter (that was the high school). Please note Scarsdale Middle School is on Mamaroneck Road, not Mamaroneck Avenue.

Click here for the Rehearsal This Week page, which has detailed directions and a Google map. Click on the Directions tab, enter your starting address, and it will create directions (and travel time) for you.

We are rehearsing sections of all four works on Monday, and Shelley will be working with you again on the Bernstein.

See you Monday at Scarsdale Middle School.

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.

Monday’s rehearsal will focus again on Carmina Burana, all movements. We’ve made the decision to keep me on stage, and use Leslie Mac Pherson as a relay conductor out in the the house, probably under the light, which is conveniently located center orchestra under the balcony. On Monday, I need to video record me conducting each movement so she has an idea of what to expect to follow.

We will not have the soloists tomorrow night, so I will have to ask for parts to be played for the recording only.

The rehearsal will conclude with a short punch list of items from Bernstein and Ticheli, including whirlies and wine glasses.

Next Monday’s rehearsal on May 5 will be in Scarsdale, as TMH is not available. We’ll have directions and parking info ready for you on Monday.

If you haven’t seen this, check out this YouTube video of the misheard lyrics from O Fortuna. It will give you a good giggle.