It is hard to describe how incredibly exciting it is to be sitting in the orchestra while we are performing this music. It's both while we're playing and while we're not. Trombones rather famously count a lot of rests; we don't play a lot. In this Shostakovich, there are long sections, and in fact one entire movement (the 3rd) where we don't play. Well, rather than being a boring exercise in figuring out where you are, it's a spine-tingling exercise. The music is so interesting and tells such a story, with the main theme woven throughout, coming up here and there, surprising you with little twists, thrilling even after you know it from having heard it so many times.
I don't have the words or the musical knowledge to describe this as well as I want to. Last night during rehearsal, I just felt so lucky to be there. So lucky. It's hard to believe my good fortune in being able to do this.
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