In attendance: Victor, Rick, Chris (scribe), Brad, David
Chris arrives a bit late while the rest of the team is doing a sound check. After getting set up, we run through a few circulation ideas with a note to pay attention to the timbre of individual notes clashing or blending with that of the full group sound. Love is Green gets prehearsal refreshing before a brief pre-show dispersal.
Our performance runs for about forty minutes and closes with Growing Circle and a cadential circulation, and has lots of circulation and improvisation in general. After the show, we do a group exercise before David has to make an early departure, and talk a little about musical phrasing in regard to the intentional placement of a phrase on or around the "weight" of a beat*. Chris asks for an example to help him with practice at home, and Victor and the team oblige.
The exhibition with Chris dovetails into a Hommage a JSB (Bartok) recital where Chris and Brad get individual and collective performance pointers for bringing the short piece to life. Following this, Victor works with Rick to pick up the mirror part in the final 10 + 9 section of Where's the Nurse, and gets a question on the bass part in Intergalactic Boogie Express answered.
Tear down and out by 10:45.
2 comments:
* it turns out there is a term for this: 'groove entrainment'.
It's fun that this is the 100th entry.
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