Inside Out rehearsal #9

Rick's House, 3 - 25 -12, 8:15 PM - 12:15 AM

**Victor, Rick, Chris (scribe), Brad, Dev, and Scott in attendance.

**a +4 -3 circulation to commence the meeting. the circulation travels in one direction in an ambiguous, slightly chromatic tonality, concluding without chords.

**Prelude to begin repertoire work. the opening bars flow well but things become less even as uncertain notes creep in. to expedite the correction process, the group retakes from within the piece, rather than from the beginning, which also challenges the structural understanding of players who are more familiar. things begin to go more smoothly, and the group decides to move on and return to the piece later.

**Peaches en Regalia is approached next, at first slower than performance tempo. after a second run, Rick takes Dev aside to help him with a few parts while Victor, Chris and Brad woodshed the two perpetuo sections. when Rick and Dev return, the group makes several more runs through the piece, eventually incorporating a fade-out at the end of the arrangement. Rick makes a note to "roll" all chords in the piece.

**after a break, there is a small consensus to continue work on Fugue no. 1 from the WTK. Chris makes a suggestion to play through the piece with only the "head" of each voice's entry, and a second time imagining the voice as a response to the previous entry. after these two runs, the group is eager to tackle the fugue with full parts. much work is devoted to this, employing several strategies: with metronome; without metronome, but counting; with no metronome, no counting. at one point, Scott steps aside to refresh his part, while Rick and Dev work out an intricacy in the last bar. as another volley of takes ensues, Victor and others begin mapping the entry of other parts for themselves, to enhance reliability and contrapuntal awareness. a pass is even made at a full Prelude/Fugue, which stays together until the end.

**a couple play-throughs of Overworld 2, with Dev conducting dynamics. some late-in-the-night banter leads to the addition of a small tone color in the finale, and the piece seems ready for Thursday.

**while Rick makes an excursion upstairs, the group compiles a list of performable (and maybe performable) repertoire for Thursday. this dovetails into a recital and somewhat lengthy discussion of Voices of Ancient Children, before Rick returns downstairs.

**a little more Fugue, and recapitulation of logistics, before dispersal.