concert!

The Livingston Christmas concert was Sunday afternoon. It went pretty well, all things considered. We had to rearrange the middle of the band because the stage is not the same size as the bandroom we rehearse in, and wound up with the ASaxes in one row and the low saxes behind that. That made listening for the other sections with the same part more difficult for the Tsaxes, because we had upper trumpets behind us and the baritones/trombones all the way on the other side of the band. I did get lost in the same place I've been getting lost. :( I worked on it, I did, but I still managed to fluff up the meter *and* the tempo change. OTOH, all it meant was that I didn't make an entrance when I should have, but four notes late. I also made some new and different key signature errors, and some reading errors. foo.

Farmington's rehearsal on Monday night was oddly tiring. We did a lot of detail work on things, and the BSaxes got more cues to read - the BClar is having trouble with a part, so DC asked us to play the cues. We didn't do much better than her, but we *were* sightreading cues. (Cue parts are written in smaller notes to make it more apparent that they're cues and not actually part of the music we're supposed to play.) Must work on those. Maybe even write them out at full size to make them easier to read.

I have been warned that I may get a reading part in the Xmas Eve service at church. whee. There will also be chime accompaniment to some of the early hymns, but that's pretty easy.