Archive for January 2003

Directions for Rehearsal

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Conductor to orchestra at the start of rehearsal: “Please get out your pencils. We have some marking to do. The first two bars are in 3/4, not 4/4 as written. Next, in the 5th bar, change it to 7/8 and this remains to the end. In bar 7 [...]

Tuck in That Shirt, Suck in That Gut

Congratulations Gillian and Robert!!! New Year’s Eve found me sitting in front of the television watching the great Dazed and Confused on Bravo. I hadn’t seen that flick in about eight years – back when my pal Dave and I watched the scene at the drive-in restaurant about twenty times in a row, memorizing Wooderson’s [...]