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November 09, 2006
Sigh
I don't feel like posting tonight so I'll just talk about what I did today. Tonight I went to orchestra practice. You see, I play first violin in a fledging community symphony orchestra. I generally enjoy myself even though there are so few of us that I feel quite a bit of pressure to play well - no one to hide behind - and I'm not very good. However, there's been some recent talk about reorganizing the group as a quartet or chamber group, and that means leaving out the oboe, flute, and clarinet players unless they want to play string parts. Understandably they aren't too thrilled about that and will drop out after we have our next concert. That saddens me because they are very good and it's unusual to get to play with wind players in a small group like this. But I do have to agree that since our recruiting efforts have been failing and we have about 9 regular members, we can't really call ourselves a symphony.
But tonight we played without a break and focused on a piece that the high school violinist recommended, called Idylls of Pegasus. It's pretty enough, but it seems to be a staple of...high school orchestras. And I'm not in high school. I want to play something with a bit more teeth. At least we have the Mozart Symphony No. 33 to keep us busy.
Posted by Laura at November 9, 2006 10:34 PM
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