First Weekday Evening Rehearsal

A Tuning the Air Journal

Monday August 17, 2009 – First Weekday Evening Rehearsal

Full performance team together in Bob and Jaxie’s living room. The focus still primarily on getting up and running, rather than getting down to nuts and bolts. We did take a certain amount of time out to look at a few repercussions of the new seating arrangement. For the composed circulation at the end of the Zeppelin medley, we ultimately elected not to reassign parts after all. Instead, we are playing our usual parts, creating a kind of vectorized version. We’ll need to test this in the performance space and probably in performance to decide if it is really an effective presentation of the line, but in the living room it sounds pretty cool. The zithered final arpeggio did need to be reorchestrated, but that was a pretty quick fix. Same thing with the arpeggio at the beginning of “In My Room”.

The bulk of the work was on “Scorched Air”. With a composed counterclockwise circulation at the beginning, a composed clockwise circulation in the middle, and then the two of them played simultaneously, the vectorized option was not really an option at all. We tried it, and the playing of it wasn’t difficult, but the effect of the double circulation was completely obscured. This one took some time to sort out. We managed to get both of the individual circulations up and running, but the double circulation will require a bit of personal practice for the players, and so we set that aside until next week. There wasn’t time to address the closing zither, and so that is on the table for next Monday as well.