We had concert band rehearsal tonight and it was just smashingly fun. I'll say it again. I can't believe how lucky I am to be able to do this. How did I get this alignment of fortunate circumstances. I just don't know, but I love it.
I also love this concert band type music. I love blasting it out on the trombone, to tell the truth.
It is also SO valuable to be playing between Paul Shannon and Bruce Simonson. I can hear how they articulate the notes and I can emulate that. I am doing that. Just playing with them is serving as a teacher.
I have to work as much as I can this week on the material. The Hindemith tonight was particularly hard for me. I've been working on this material but not at speed, and I was just completely lost today on the first page, time and again as we went through it at least three times. I know the speed because I can play the second and third pages at speed, so I'll try to play this first page during this week up to speed ... and if I can't, then I need to be able to at least count it so I don't get lost for my little one-measure solo at the bottom of the first page.
I wrote down my notes on what to practice and I'll just do my best. Our concert is Saturday, May 2, and we have rehearsals Thursday and Friday of this week.
Did I mention how lucky I feel?
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