spring natter
Apr. 23rd, 2019 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkTrees are beginning to leaf out! yay.
The strawberry beds are full of weeds. boo. Guess I know what I'm doing today.
Bell choir went fairly well on Sunday. A very simple (but effective) arrangement with just two bells per person. I found Sunday's performance very easy, but I suspect that's because I'd spent the last two rehearsals covering four bells because someone was absent.... And now Bell Choir is done for the year. The rest of the Easter service was pretty much as it's been (standard hymns, over-wrought video, cheesy special music (as a note, I don't really think that Chris Tomlin's I Will Rise is good special music for Easter, for all that it's a lovely song)), except that there were far fewer people in attendance than usual. I suspect I know why. Ghu knows I wouldn't have been there except for Bell Choir.
Yesterday's FCB rehearsal was a hard one. I think we ran everything from the upcoming concert at close to performance tempos so that we could see what we needed to work on. The future home of the FCB is uncertain. We know we'll be at FHS for the summer, but there is still no official word on where we will be for the next school year, nor whether there will be a place for the music or the percussion gear. sigh. for all that 'the school system supports the FCB', they're not doing a very good job of it. The music department at Harrison has asked us to play for Harrison's last graduation -- they closed the school gradually, so that the Harrison band is tiny, not very good, and mostly (all?) seniors. And there's a farewell assembly in June that we're expected to play. To be fair, many members of the FCB have played more concerts on Harrison's stage than any Harrison students ever did.
The strawberry beds are full of weeds. boo. Guess I know what I'm doing today.
Bell choir went fairly well on Sunday. A very simple (but effective) arrangement with just two bells per person. I found Sunday's performance very easy, but I suspect that's because I'd spent the last two rehearsals covering four bells because someone was absent.... And now Bell Choir is done for the year. The rest of the Easter service was pretty much as it's been (standard hymns, over-wrought video, cheesy special music (as a note, I don't really think that Chris Tomlin's I Will Rise is good special music for Easter, for all that it's a lovely song)), except that there were far fewer people in attendance than usual. I suspect I know why. Ghu knows I wouldn't have been there except for Bell Choir.
Yesterday's FCB rehearsal was a hard one. I think we ran everything from the upcoming concert at close to performance tempos so that we could see what we needed to work on. The future home of the FCB is uncertain. We know we'll be at FHS for the summer, but there is still no official word on where we will be for the next school year, nor whether there will be a place for the music or the percussion gear. sigh. for all that 'the school system supports the FCB', they're not doing a very good job of it. The music department at Harrison has asked us to play for Harrison's last graduation -- they closed the school gradually, so that the Harrison band is tiny, not very good, and mostly (all?) seniors. And there's a farewell assembly in June that we're expected to play. To be fair, many members of the FCB have played more concerts on Harrison's stage than any Harrison students ever did.
