Quote from: John G. on October 21, 2024, 10:25:09 AMI worked 4.5 hours so far. Am on lunch break. The lines are enormous. Is your neck problem handling the work OK?
I worked 4.5 hours so far. Am on lunch break. The lines are enormous.
I am shocked that DR VIXMOM has never seen Rosemary's Baby.SHOCKED I TELL YOU.
DR George, I doubt the Styne estate will pay for a new Gypsy vocal score. What they've actually needed for the past 60 years is a rental piano-celesta part that actually follows the scores as opposed to forcing a show's pianist to play performances with the orchestra from the published vocal score.
A bit of news that I'm delinquent on passing on to you fine people:Remember Once Upon a Mattress, and how that went to a little place we like to call Broadway, so our rights were yanked? Do you also remember The World According to Snoopy, our replacement for Mattress? Did I ever tell you that we couldn't cast the menfolk, so the theeder had to make a run on yet another show? No, I believe I did not.Well, here it is:The November-December show is now Winter Wonderettes, the holiday-themed followup to The Marvelous Wonderettes. And yes, it is cast, thank the goddesses. We had our first music rehearsal last night...exactly one (1) (count 'em) day after the materials arrived, so everyone - EVERYONE, including Yrs Truly - was sightreading. Today I'll get to actually learn some of it so as to pound notes with a wee bit more confidence tonight.That's Winter Wonderettes. Remember, you read it here first.
DR George:
Nice poster DR George.
This weekend was busy. We had our first of two Voices of Silicon Valley concerts on Saturday and it went well. The program included some really hard pieces by Peter Shin and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as music from Gladiator and the video games Portal II and Genshin Impact.
Yesterday we made our first visit to a new jazz club that opened near us, rather than having to drive up to San Francisco or Oakland, or down to Santa Cruz. We saw Randy Brecker playing with Tod Dickow and Charged Particles in music of Michael Brecker.
The drummer of Charged Particles was in the High School Symphonic Band with me when we were at Interlochen, and later we played together in the MIT Symphony Orchestra when he was a ringer from Harvard. This is the first time I'd seen him since college. We had a nice chat before the gig.
I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of good sleep.
