some people.....

sigh. I just spent half a dozen emails explaining to someone exactly which music he should pull for Tuesday's concert. Condensed version follows:

"list from DM says Stars & Stripes 1843. Wha??"
a: It's the first piece in the performance list and we've *never* opened a concert with S+S, nor have we ever played it twice in a concert and it's also at the end of the list. My assumption is that he meant the non-Moffitt Star Spangled Banner that's in the folders. (and let's not even mention that Stars + Stripes hadn't even been written in 1843.)

"But I don't have SSB 1843!"
a: You have SSB 1853, yes?

Assume an autocorrupt issue and a typo and move on, especially when there is a plausible alternative present.

"I don't have Victory for MSU"
a; yes, you do. you have Fight Song MSU, and it's been mentioned at every summer rehearsal for the last two years that Fight Song MSU is now called Victory for MSU. You could open the file called Victory for MSU and look at the pdfs to be sure.

And then there was the other individual who texted me four times last Tuesday, the last two times while I was driving home from work:
"I can't find the music link"
"do you have the set list?"
"when do we start?"
"do I need a chair?"
(the last two questions were answered in the email with the set list which I had forwarded just before I left for work.)

Note that neither one of these people is new to the band or to the summer sessions -- while newer than me, this is at least their 3d full season with the band -- and summer concerts have always started at the same time and we are to provide our own chairs and music stands.

This is, I think, one of the reasons I'm not thrilled with the summer band. This is, theoretically, the band I play in for fun....