Rehearsal

[av8rmike]

A.K.A. "This week in Jason quotes".

"This whole introduction [of Ives' 2nd Symphony] is one big organ prelude. Ives wants to sound like it's leading somewhere spiritual... Too bad it's to 'Turkey in the Straw'."

"Cellos, bless your hearts, but you seem to think 'accelerando' means 'slow down'."

"Bassoon, you're actually playing a horn part there, but the horns can't play that low. So you're going to need to be more horny."

Comments

[violaman.livejournal.com]

How could you keep playing after the "Turkey In The Straw" line? I laughed out loud reading it here, and I might have fallen out of my chair at rehearsal.

I am adding the line "be more horny" to my vocabulary. I'll find a use for it sometime.

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

Maybe because we'd already gotten a good laugh out of watching Jason try to conduct while wearing a cap & gown that were several sizes too big (there'd been some kind of ceremony at the college that day). He looked like Mickey in "The Sorceror's Apprentice". Ives really does quote "Turkey in the Straw" in the fifth movement, though.