In attendance: Victor, Chris (scribe), Brad, Dev
Our space is downstairs tonight. Brad and Chris get a few performance pointers from Victor while awaiting Dev, who arrives during a reading of Derailed at the Junction. Brad, Chris and Victor also give Bicycling to Afghanistan a whirl as they consider repertoire possibilities for the quartet.
After a few guests arrive, we decide it is time to begin the performance-proper and meet in the "green room" a little after 7:30. The set that emerges is laden with improvisation:
circulation/improv I
Eye of the Needle
improv II
Bicycling to Afghanistan
improv III
Intergalactic Boogie Express
Hommage a JSB
circulation II/improv IV
Q & A (how was Seattle?)
improv V
Thrak
improv VI
Where's the Nurse
improv VII
Growing Circle
circulation III/improv VIII
Austurias
circulation IV
Some talk after the set regarding the next step and our current successes and failures. Returning to a rehearsal mind, Victor asks the team what they have been working on this week in their own personal practice, and Chris proffers a small bit from a project he is undertaking with Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Then we work on Voices of Ancient Children with Dev teaching Victor the melody in small parts and a few full-group run-throughs for good measure; we have some homework.
Tear-down and out late, after 11:00.
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