At the outset I should show my colours - I am primarily a teacher of horn, but I do quite a lot of freelance work as well. I also help out with a couple of (good) amateur orchestras when required.
Rehearsals: It seems to vary from country to country. In England in freelance orchestras we usually meet for the first time on the day of the gig, rehearse all afternoon and perform in the evening. Sometimes, if there's not time in the rehearsal, we sight- read on the night (although usually in such cases, we've all played the piece before, but not with this conductor - we watch and follow. (On one freelance gig I did, the council had closed all the approach roads to Chester and, despite parking on the outskirts of town and running in, we, at 3.00 were the first to arrive for a 2.00 rehearsal. When about half of the orchestra were there,at about 4.00, we rehearsed a couple of corners and, apart from that, sight read the entire concert on the night.) When I worked for a short time in France, they wanted lots of rehearsals (at the end of which we were no better than we'd been after the first rehearsal, in fact occasionally we were worse because we were bored.) I cannot comment on the rehearsal schudules of full time pro orchestras Cheers, Lawrence On 22 May 2010 17:39, Bill Gross <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm exposing my ignorance of the professional world with the following > question. I am interested in knowing a little about the rehearsal scheme > of > professional orchestras. > > My assumption is that since most of the works on a schedule are from the > well known repertoire most musicians in a professional symphony are already > familiar with the work. Are rehearsals devoted to bringing the ensemble > together and becoming attune to the conductors desire on a piece. Are the > regular section rehearsal or something similar? > > I've picked up from conversations here that professionals seem to put in > about 3 hours day on personal practise time. Is that a correct impression? > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yateslawrence%40googlemail.com > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
