So I finally decided to make a contribution to the arts. Last week I had my first rehearsal with a new symphony orchestra that I recently joined. Okay, it is an local amateur symphony orchestra. But they do sound really good, they do give concerts, and they are playing some rather challenging pieces of music. For example, in tomorrows rehearsal we will be playing Beethoven's Symphony #7 in A Major, Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, among other compositions. The skil levels of the orchestra members varies tremendously, from some highly skilled musicians to people who haven't played since they were kids, to people like myself, who can play but can also stand a lot of improvement, to rank beginners. The nice thing is that the music we are playing is not watered down in any way shape or form, The music that sits on the stands of our orchestra is the same music that is on the stands of professional symphony orchestras and can be quite challenging to try to play, particularly for me. Some of us can play all the notes, and others only a few of them For example while rehearsing Mozart's Symphony # 40 (playing second violin part) I found myself playing a few measures at times and other times getting totally lost and ending up putting the instrument down and just trying to follow the music while listening to others play. Our next rehearsal is tomorrow evening. Hopefully I will be able to play along a bit more. But as our conductor said, "just play whatever you can, even if it is just a little bit".
In any event here is a link to our orchestra It gives a basic idea of who we are and the stuff we are playing, or, in the case of a few of us... trying to play. :) No I am not in any of the pictures..yet.
http://www.newsymphony.org/
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