Rehearsal at the Wilsons

A Tuning the Air Journal

Monday November 30, 2009 – Rehearsal at the Wilsons

We were Chris-less tonight due to a touch of flu-ishness.

Very straightforward plan for tonight. Since the OCG course in October, our setlist has been much more open and un-pre-planned. One interesting aspect of this is that there are a number of pieces that always seem to come out of the hat. Borderline spooky. The flip side is that there are a number of pieces we haven’t performed or even touched upon for a month or more. So for tonight the plan was to play everything. We pulled titles from the hat, and in this way also managed to “rehearse” playing pieces on the fly, whether or not we are (for instance) sufficiently warmed up. The metronome was on for every piece. We did pause from time to time to look at details of particular pieces, especially those we have not performed recently. One short break, but this process filled the entire rehearsal.