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Feb. 1st, 2008 08:01 pmFirst rehearsal for Dido today; Ami, the coach and leader (heh -- the director is British, so I feel justified in mentally thinking of her as the leader, and really, it does make more sense, since we're a four person orchestra), thinks I will/should play everything. This is pretty awesome, but, this is exactly what happened two years ago, and Professor H. nixed it on the grounds of "too hard to coordinate and it's perfectly authentic to do just harpsichord to accompany vocal stuff"). BUT, he liked my Bach a lot last semester, and now he knows I'm a good musician, and maybe he will trust me. And maybe Ami will put in a good word for me.
On the downside, my part doesn't include any cues for the accompanied recits., which I will definitely be playing. And of course, I just have pedal points, and without the voices -- it was not pretty. I borrowed a score, and I'm going to go through and write the damn vocal parts in. The next cellist will be glad, I suppose.
Now I am really really really hoping to play the whole thing.
The first part of rehearsal was spent going over the libretto and the story. In pretty excruciating detail, and I couldn't even talk about all of the bizarre references/use of Vergil that were coming up. She talked a bit about opera as spectacle along with a play in the 17th century, but unfortunately, the version of Measure for Measure that interpolates Dido never came up. Although the "Spaniards with jack-o-lanterns" did. And that was kind of fun.
On the downside, my part doesn't include any cues for the accompanied recits., which I will definitely be playing. And of course, I just have pedal points, and without the voices -- it was not pretty. I borrowed a score, and I'm going to go through and write the damn vocal parts in. The next cellist will be glad, I suppose.
Now I am really really really hoping to play the whole thing.
The first part of rehearsal was spent going over the libretto and the story. In pretty excruciating detail, and I couldn't even talk about all of the bizarre references/use of Vergil that were coming up. She talked a bit about opera as spectacle along with a play in the 17th century, but unfortunately, the version of Measure for Measure that interpolates Dido never came up. Although the "Spaniards with jack-o-lanterns" did. And that was kind of fun.
