Tonight is our final appearance downstairs, and we are without Glenn or Rick.
The room is a little untidy, and the bar stools we have been using as our seats are mostly being used by the group upstairs. But we can make it work.
We take some extra time to move props and puppets from the bar into the adjoining art room, and seek out a few black padded stools to fill out the circle of seats. Our current opinion regarding our regular stools is that they wobble, and are generally in need of repair; these new substitute stools, however, are maxing out our perspective on the possibilities of dubious butt support.
No recording is being made tonight. Whatever we play will be lost in the aether.
Dev arrives as Victor is setting up the mix with the rest of the group; a few others, who are not members of the GCNE, are also arriving around this time (we are running a bit later than usual). For a warm-up we play through Askesis, then go on to consider what repertoire is available to our truncated group. From this, a few piquant prehearsal items emerge.
A good turnout - there are almost no empty seats. It's a short, light-hearted set featuring some official repertoire debuts, including a Bartok duet and a short canon by Haydn. It was also a good opportunity for the Circle to navigate through distraction, with bathroom-goers and furniture-movers coming and going from upstairs.
Dev and Victor are on a somewhat tight time table, so we talk about logistics for Saturday (Wake Up the Earth festival) and tear down by 10:00.
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