In attendance: Victor, Chris (scribe), Brad, Dev, David
Chris, Brad and Dev get together at Brad's apartment about an hour prior to normal GCS set up time for some extra work together (in lieu of a small group meeting over the week). After beginning with a short circulation, Chris suggests looking at triads in G minor, in connection with the Haydn canon currently in the GCNE repertoire. The plan is to begin with a pattern and see how far it goes: Chris playing roots, Brad 3rds and Dev 5ths. After going up to the highest D (the 5th of the highest G minor triad), we descend and alternate intervals - Chris on the 3rd, Brad on the 5th, etc. Before moving on from this, Chris makes a request to be able to hear some 'counter-subjects' happening over the canon, and the resulting experiment offers a clue that natural minor is not the best choice for improvising in a harmonic minor context.
Next up, we run through Batrachomyomachy, retaking it from the "frogs" with Brad playing on a different part of the round. Finally, Dev indulges Brad and Chris by listening to a recital of Bartok's Hommage a JSB, and has a pointer not mentioned on their previous Sunday's close work with the piece. The group heads out soon thereafter.
Everyone is gathered at the performance space by 6:20. Victor needs just one more shot at the mirrors in Where's the Nurse during prehearsal, and we are on around 7:30 for a 45-minute performance.
Post-show with guitars, we play a game involving a search for the "last note" of a phrase as the notes are passed around the circle; several report that this is harder to do at faster speeds when the thinking turns to being on point, rather than being present with the circulation as a whole. Afterward, we play another game searching for the tonic in a series of circulated notes: eight seats forward, then all chime in for a group chord with their "answer" to the question.
Tear down and out by 10:45.
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