Guitar Craft Course Recapitulation Meeting

A Tuning the Air Journal

Thursday April 1, 2010 – Guitar Craft Course Recapitulation Meeting

In place of our usual pre-season Thursday evening rehearsal – Fremont Abbey was booked tonight, and besides many of us were jet lagging heavily having just arrived from Italy within the past 48 hours – we met at the Wilsons to recapitulate the course. Mary Beth, Taylor and Bill were still out of town. But the rest of the team, both those who travelled to Italy and those who participated at a distance crowded into the living room. It was pretty free-form, with impressions and particular memories presented as they arose, sometimes radically different takes on the same experience, with very little narrative structure. A little like a jigsaw puzzle, after a time a picture of the course began to emerge. Four of the AAD team had met on a number of occasions to work together on guitar, with a focus on chord voicings and inversions, and they filled us in on that work as well.

We took a break, and enjoyed the stupendous cheesecake that House Manager Charles brought with him.

For the final part of the meeting, the Italy team brought the home team up to date on the meeting we had with Robert. Chris was formally introduced as the new Music Director for the 2010 season, and the discussion moved on to some of the challenges and aims for the upcoming season, including a reminder that we have two weeks – 5 rehearsals including next Thursday’s full tech rehearsal at Fremont Abbey – before opening night.