On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:30 PM, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2009, at 5:03 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> it's amazing to me, indeed, how a baroque piece that starts with a 7th >> in the opening chord, comes to your mind just like that. > > It starts with a tone cluster, and it comes to mind because it's
Utterly OT, but I cannot resist. One of the very first times I played with a 'real' orchestra I came to the Monday morning rehearsal finding Les Elements on my music stand: all 234567 chords. Difficult! After one page I was completely lost, found it again, was lost, found it back, lost - all the time thinking how good these players around me were, not losing their way in this chaos. It turned out they had given me only the pages with odd page numbers! Next piece was a suite of French baroque dances - Rameau/Lully? don't remember - Complicated repeat schedules: AABBCCAB, somethig different for each movement and always attacca to the next piece. I was lost many times, every repeat and page turn, again impressed by the people around that were playing on without blinking an eye. It turned out that the part I was given had the pages in a very unusal order, as the original had been taken apart: get the stapples out, copy everything double sided then put back together in a wrong order. It took a while for me to realise this, and by that time I was sweating almost as much as Roy Goodman, our conductor. Back to topic. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
