garden catch-up
Apr. 23rd, 2016 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkThe daffodils in the NW bed that were lagging were the double daffodils, so they're later than the plain yellow ones. The yellow-and-orange daffs by the wellpoint bloomed last week, and the clumps of hyacinth by the house are almost solid purple. There are a couple of species tulips out in the front bed by the forsythia, but the rest of them are either late or not blooming -- we did have a solid freeze and snow cover when they usually come up, so it's possible they'll just be late this year. The standard tulips are budding nicely, so as long as the bunnies leave them alone I may get flowers on them. There's nothing blooming in the side flower bed right now (because no species tulips), but there's a lot of stuff growing at least. The volunteer fruit trees in the easement bloomed last week, and the rosebush and rowan leaves popped.
In other natter, rehearsal last Monday was fraught. We had sectionals, and FB sent me off with the brass, which is normally fine, but one of the pieces we worked had the lower winds with a countermelody to the brass, and I could *not* count! I can play that part, have done so, and did so in full rehearsal, but just couldn't do it when it was just me against the brass. And then RB started in on the crappy reed I was using 'yes, I have good reeds. this is not one of them.'-- reeds are expensive ($8/each, $3.60 in quantity), so I use them as long as I can, which is usually a month. It was in a section where the bassoons/barisax double the baritones, and he wants a full no reed sound. I admit that the sound was thin and reedy, not the usual full sound, but I really didn't appreciate being called out; and as the composer included low winds, he must have wanted some level of reed sound there -- he leaves them out in other places.
In other natter, rehearsal last Monday was fraught. We had sectionals, and FB sent me off with the brass, which is normally fine, but one of the pieces we worked had the lower winds with a countermelody to the brass, and I could *not* count! I can play that part, have done so, and did so in full rehearsal, but just couldn't do it when it was just me against the brass. And then RB started in on the crappy reed I was using 'yes, I have good reeds. this is not one of them.'-- reeds are expensive ($8/each, $3.60 in quantity), so I use them as long as I can, which is usually a month. It was in a section where the bassoons/barisax double the baritones, and he wants a full no reed sound. I admit that the sound was thin and reedy, not the usual full sound, but I really didn't appreciate being called out; and as the composer included low winds, he must have wanted some level of reed sound there -- he leaves them out in other places.
