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RemRem
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Posts: 217
(9/8/01 11:53:40 am)
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stupid
question...
As I really would like to play in an orchestra I called someone
from a community orchestra and asked if may join. They don't have
auditions and so he asked me to come for the next rehearsal to see
if I like it and if I like the people. Now for the stupid part:
shall I come with my cello or just me to have a look? They are
rehearsing for a concert in november and it's the first rehearsal
after the summer break so I think it's a good time to jump
in.
Regards
Michele
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drcello
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Posts: 600
(9/8/01 12:23:36 pm)
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Take your
cello!
by all means, take your cello and join in. They will surely be glad
you are there!
Marshall C. St. John
drcello@vei.net
Wayside Presbyterian Church
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Bobbie
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Posts: 649
(9/8/01 12:32:23 pm)
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Re: stupid
question...
There's no harm in playing through the rehearsal and judging how
much you can do and whether or not it is too hard for you. We have
lots of people come sit in for a rehearsal and then either stay or
leave and come back the next semester or the next year.
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CelloBass
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Posts: 91
(9/8/01 3:49:56 pm)
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Re: stupid...
not at all.
Michele,
if I were young and if I had not made some bad
experiences in the past, I would say yes, bring your cello and play
with them. But today, 25 years later, I would do it that way: Go
there without your cello, sit down in a corner of the room and look
what they do. Watch how the conductor deals with the members of the
orchestra, watch how the players get along with each other. How is
the mood in the orchestra, and how is the relationship between
orchestra and conductor? Relaxed, do they understand each other, or
is it tense, is there impatience or even hidden aggression between
those people? What is the skill of the players? What pieces do they
play, and when will be the next public performance? Are those goals
realistic? Or will they probably end in panic because they will
realize one week before the performance that they still can't play
those pieces without getting lost? Try to get an overall impression
of the situation and decide after that if you want to play with
them. If you bring your cello you will concentrate on your cello
part and you will perhaps realize late that the basics are not OK.
Leaving the orchestra after one or two rehearsals can put you into
unpleasant situations. They will call you, or ask you when they meet
you, why didn't you show up anymore? Hey, what's the problem?
Weren't we good enough for you? Why have you changed your mind?
Horst
Edited by: CelloBass
at: 9/8/01 3:54:55 pm
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DoDahlberg
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Posts: 151
(9/9/01 6:16:08 am)
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Re: stupid
question...
Absolutely bring the cello! A community orchestra which has no
auditions having their first rehearsal for a November concert will
be people like you who are also seeing this music for the first
time. It won't be up to tempo, most people will be site reading -
and struggling. It's not what the group will sound like now in
September; you'll all be moving to a more finished product for the
next couple months. Lots of work and learning to get there. That's
what rehearsals are for.
I might just add this: My orchestra
always sounds so horrible at the rehearsal the week before the
concert. Always! Every body is freaking out that we are going to
make fools of ourselves. Then something happens the day of the
concert; it just comes together. Always. I've come to depend on this
'thing'. I played in a summer orchestra with people from other local
orchestras, different conductor, different everything and the same
thing happened. That rehearsal before the concert sounded like we
hadn't worked all summer, like we'd learned nothing. Even running
through some of the spots we'd worked on repeatedly the morning of
the concert - disasterous! But, again - it came together when the
audience was sitting there.
So, take your cello with you and
don't sweat it. Between now and then, it will come together. This is
my personal guarentee.
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RemRem
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(9/9/01 10:39:46 am)
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Thanks
all!
I guess I'll just take my cello and go there! As a good part of the
cello section are older men they'll probably more than happy to help
a younger woman 
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claud19
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Posts: 45
(9/10/01 12:54:26 pm)
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good luck
THE FOLLOWING POST TO BE TAKEN IN A LIGHT-HEARTED MANNER,
PLEASE!!
Your post was interesting to me, as I just went to my
first rehearsal of my first orchestra ever (playing cello, that
is)--no auditions, first concert in November. See my post below. I
brought my cello because it never occurred to me not to. Your last
comment caught my eye, and I had to laugh as I read that the mostly
older men in the cello section would be more than happy to help a
younger woman. That was exactly my experience last week at my first
rehearsal--I wanted to share my little story. I want to put out a
disclaimer that I am NOT in the habit of "using" my feminity to get
ahead--absolutely not. Maybe it's unfair, but I think it would be
naive to say that it doesn't often give you a little edge. Please
don't lambaste me, fellow cellists!! But being in my early 30s,
reasonably in shape, not horrible-looking, and friendly (try to be),
it's just been my experience that it happens this way. I guess I'll
be in trouble when the 20-something cellists join!!
A retired
man from the trumpet section came over to me during the break and
started chatting away, and after rehearsal he waited for me and
offered to carry my cello. He was very sweet, but I declined, of
course. As he walked me to my car I said,"Thank you for going out of
your way to make me feel welcome on my first night." And he
replied,"Well, I'm a sucker for a young girl with a pretty smile,
and if she's a musician too--then I'm really hooked." He said it in
a nice way, not a creepy way.
So bring your cello, good luck, and
I'm sure you'll be great!
--Claudine
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