Re: Easy process


"Matthew Fields" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> [snip story about a composer who wasted rehearsal time on the first bar
> and spoke about mistakes at the concert]
>
> If you're going to sing off-key, sing loud! At the end of the day, what
> counts is that the listeners remain thoroughly intrigued.
>
> Conductors, producers, recording engineers, concertmasters... They're
> all in the business of making the best use of rehearsal time to
> produce a wonderful sound. I try to keep out of their way as much as
> possible. And even when a piece of mine has just been butchered
> beyond recognition (as happened in one video presentation of a brass
> quintet of mine a couple years ago), I always congratulate the players
> for the audience.

I would say that's the stand up thing to do. There's no sense beating a dead
horse (the performance, not the work :-)

I do the same. I try to stay out of it. I figure, they're pros, and I've
hired them (or whatever) and they know what they're doing. I don't jump up
there the first time something goes wrong. I only "interfere" when they ask
a question, or if I notice they're doing something consistently wrong. I had
a clarinet player read a passage with a wrong note 4 or 5 times through, but
I didn't say anything. Suddenly, the went, oh wait, there's a G# here, and
then it was fine from then out. But I wanted them to get the flow of the
passage as it was cuing another instrument in, so if I interrupted (though
that would be a simple fix, others are more complex) I feared the other
player might not get to hear how their part interacted with the other.

On one hand I feel Like I should be more involved, but on the other hand, I
feel like I should let them do their thing. Even though I'm a control freak,
I've found that the latter makes them think I'm not, which in the end seems
to make for a less tense situation.

Steve




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