Letter from Dan (9/21)

Dear Concertino West,

Thank you for an excellent rehearsal this week! I’m super excited to welcome Diane Hallberg as our wind specialist for this season. She’ll be joining us about twice per month in our large rehearsal and leading sectionals for our woodwind, brass, and percussion players. We’re lucky to have Diane’s expertise and are excited for all the ways she’ll work with students this season!

Rehearsal Recap

After tuning, we played two scales: G major and G minor. We then worked on matching articulation between winds/strings and dynamic contrast in Sarabande. We sightread Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Letter E-H and learned about the fancy time signature of 9/8. After the break, we played through all of Genesis and then worked on getting our rhythms to line up in measures 53-64.

This week’s GTCYS10

• Scale focus: Concert G major and G minor
• Radetsky March
  • Focused practice on mm. 57-92
  • Set your metronome on Half=84 and play in cut time
• Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • Focused practice on Letter E-G
  • Set your metronome at the practice speed of Dotted-Quarter=86
• Sarabande
  • Continue focused practice:
    • Clarinets – mm. 28-37
    • All others – mm.1-29
  • Set your metronome on Quarter=74
• Genesis
  • Review mm. 1-45
  • Focused practice on mm. 53-64; set metronome on Quarter=80 and make sure you’re playing the rhythms steady
  • Pay particular attention to bowings and articulations

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I look forward to seeing you at the retreat this Sunday!

Dan