Rhapsody in Red

Before i forget about the 'orchestra' practice on sat..

Sometimes i wondered do they really care about what is happening? The top-down apprpoach will only work if target are realistic. Maybe it is realistic.. but it sure need a lot more time, and players.

I don't understand. What is the difference between a wind band and orchestra? In this context, does it matter? Are we able to reach out to more if it is an orchestra? Right now, it all seems like a joke lor.. it turns people off, especially with that number. Parts are missing, and hence players are missing. I don't like to play when there are missing parts.. it just makes the whole music sound bad. For an orchestra arrangement, it's even worse.

Actually i don't want to complain one.. just that yesterday boss asked.. so i told her lor. Of coz, my boss also got boss. Maybe they don't understand.. or maybe i don't understand what they don't understand.

Yesterday was quite kong bu.. other than the disparity between the wind and strings, i don't think i was playing in a group. Quite disheartening lor. On the bright side, i kind of liked the tone from the 2 instruments in SCC. They are of coz, students' model.. which means a lot more easier to 'tame' than my baobei horn.. but quite very nice tone they produced in scc. Makes me so want to learn some horn concerto. Someone told me before, the more you play with lousy players, the worse you become.. hahaha.. that is so so true.. but i've been listening to horn concerto for the past few weeks.. especially when the bus took so long just to reach boonlay. I guess it helps to make to want to produce a better tone.

Sight-read 3 pieces.. actually 2+. The other 1 (Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin) needed a much stronger brass section.. so it was KIVed. Yupz.. i was again, the only brass section there.. lol leh. No fun lor.. my sound was so obvious.. lol.. play wrong sure know. Been working on the higher ranged intonation.. and i was so surprised it helped so much in sight-reading.. especially i didn't mis-pitch that much due to the close harmornics.. wow leh.. really must work on it somemore. Encountered some weird notations again.. this time was the stopped horn technique.. arrr.. so busy leh.. ahahaha.. normally, i'll just ignore it.. coz my stopped horn really cmi.. a bit like the tyre pom zek sound like that.

So here goes another 'orch' practice.. as i promised, and so i'll stay.. no matter how bad.. no matter how scary. If it comes without a struggle, it won't mean much.