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Break time!
Aug. 14th, 2019 09:23 amIn which I am done with playing for a whole four weeks! (I usually have a longer break after the December holiday concert....) Tomorrow I take Esme into the shop for her annual checkup.
Final LCCB concert record is 6-2-1. Bigger crowd for last night's concert, also a bigger band. The director had said there'd be no rehearsal before the concert, but most everyone was in place by 7:10, so he ran a very quick "tricky bits" rehearsal. I discovered that Coat of Arms is relatively easy when done about 10 bpm slower than the FCB did it last year. :) Also, Glee has a lot to answer for. One of the pieces we did last night was a HS band arrangement of Journey's greatest hits -- I heard that every single year for about four years while working the marching band exhibition at CHS, and it still pops up every couple of years. And it's not nearly as good as the one SR played in her freshman year at CHS (to be fair, that one was a custom arrangement, and was the season before Glee did a Journey show and Journey got popular again). Many of the LCCB summer pieces are that type. But I knew what I was getting into -- it's a fine community band, but it's at about the level of a good HS band.
We have gotten no measurable rain for the last couple of weeks, so I've had to stop weeding. It's not been really hot, so the ground isn't baked hard, but it's still dry enough that the weeds are breaking off rather than pulling out. I did cut back another batch of dying bleeding heart stems, and cut off some milkweed and hibiscus stalks that had fallen over and were either withering away or getting run over by the lawnmower.
I currently hear a frog croaking out in the pond. First time this summer - we had toads trilling in the spring, but this is the first time I've heard a frog during the day. There's also a dull murmur of chirping/content birds.
Final LCCB concert record is 6-2-1. Bigger crowd for last night's concert, also a bigger band. The director had said there'd be no rehearsal before the concert, but most everyone was in place by 7:10, so he ran a very quick "tricky bits" rehearsal. I discovered that Coat of Arms is relatively easy when done about 10 bpm slower than the FCB did it last year. :) Also, Glee has a lot to answer for. One of the pieces we did last night was a HS band arrangement of Journey's greatest hits -- I heard that every single year for about four years while working the marching band exhibition at CHS, and it still pops up every couple of years. And it's not nearly as good as the one SR played in her freshman year at CHS (to be fair, that one was a custom arrangement, and was the season before Glee did a Journey show and Journey got popular again). Many of the LCCB summer pieces are that type. But I knew what I was getting into -- it's a fine community band, but it's at about the level of a good HS band.
We have gotten no measurable rain for the last couple of weeks, so I've had to stop weeding. It's not been really hot, so the ground isn't baked hard, but it's still dry enough that the weeds are breaking off rather than pulling out. I did cut back another batch of dying bleeding heart stems, and cut off some milkweed and hibiscus stalks that had fallen over and were either withering away or getting run over by the lawnmower.
I currently hear a frog croaking out in the pond. First time this summer - we had toads trilling in the spring, but this is the first time I've heard a frog during the day. There's also a dull murmur of chirping/content birds.
