Final Performance Team Rehearsal (with an asterisk)

A Tuning the Air Journal

Monday December 12, 2011 – Final Performance Team Rehearsal (with an asterisk)

The asterisk is that this was technically the final “full team” rehearsal. The full performance team, including Igor, Joel, Darlene, and Bill, together in rehearsal for the last time. There remains one more Wednesday afternoon extracurricular workout for those available.

We ran the Prelude and Fugue first, cold. Just to see how we were.

Then, following on from the detail work we did with Bill on Saturday, we simply walked through the set. With every piece we identified the various things that we wanted to pay attention to, and with those in mind played through the piece, in many cases with the metronome. Except to test an idea that Bill had for “Slow Burn”, we really didn’t “work” anything. We simply acknowledged the challenges and aims for each piece, played it, and if necessary made observations afterward.

Everything is very solid. On Wednesday afternoon some of us have the extracurricular rehearsal to hammer out any details we would like to touch on, but essentially, it is personal practice, and on to Thursday.