Monday night was the first rehearsal of the season. We had 10, yes, 10 cellos!!! Yay cellos! During my first season we had 3 cellos, and the orchestra has grown in numbers and skill over the past few years.
We even got our 15 minutes of fame, with a full page photo and short article about our orchestra in Conde Nast's Portfolio magazine. I've never heard of the magazine before, but who cares? The photo was taken in June of this year, and the article is in the September issue..
Rehearsal went well, just reading music that will be in our December program plus starting work on a symphony we will play in March. We read through Sibelius' Karelia Suite, Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite, the Nutcracker Suite, Carol of the Bells, and the last movement of Symphony #1 by Kallinikov. It was so nice to hear all of the cellos!
I now have the 3 cello parts for Popper's Requiem; I will be playing it with our principal and one of the first cellos sometime. When? I don't know. Our conductor found the orchestra parts for it so now I think we're commited to playing it... The 2 other cellists get to fight over who plays 1st cello and I will end up with the 2nd or 3rd part. Woo hoo!
5 comments:
Congratulations on the article. Great photo too! That's so cool... A Microsoft Orchestra. Too bad Bill Gates is rusty. I didn't know he played trombone.
The Karelia Suite ... ouch! We played it at our Spring concert this past April. (see my posts from Feb March and April; it came up a lot)
10 cellos, fantastic! Congratulations on getting the publicity and on getting the 3 cello piece on the schedule. Way to go!
Great article, great photo! And outstanding, having ten cello!
And congratulations on the Popper. Sounds like a good program.
Thanks, everyone. It was pretty exciting to see the article. At rehearsal we asked our conductor about his recruitment effort with Bill Gates. Our conductor laughed and said that not only did Bill reply that he was rusty on the trombone, but that he really wanted to play the guitar instead.
Cellodonna, I did read your posts about the Karelia Suite and I agree, especially that first part with the 32nd notes is tough! I don't think we sounded like bees during reheasal, probably more like crickets, I think.
Awesome! I just looked at the number of cellos for my youth symphony- we have 13!!! So I've got you beat... :D
Too bad about Bill Gates! That would have been pretty cool!
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