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May. 12th, 2004 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phineasjonesso yesterday was what they call a rude awakening. conducting an opera in a living room is not the same thing as conducting a fully staged one. especially one that's being fully staged in a movie theater. ok, it once was something other than a movie theater... it's one of those pretty, ornate, 20's-ish theaters. this one's in a sad state of disrepair though and the orchestra pit is covered over. so we're all in front of the stage. i actually perch on a stool in the aisle, about 2 rows into the audience. and i'm not lit. so i'm pretty much useless to the singers.
sigh. much as i'm loving all this, i wish the people who planned this had... well, planned it. everything's being done after the fact, like patchwork. oh! you all need stands? ok, we can find stands. oh! you mean you all need black stands? ok, we can get those. 3 days later and we still don't have all the right stands. i would think they would have had a 'what will the instrumentalists need' session some time months ago. alas.
but i don't really need to be bitching about other people. the real scare yesterday was my own performance. dudes, it's hard. when the singers get off - ahead or behind - i'm supposed to keep the others with them and together and sometimes it's almost impossible. and it's terrifying when things are suddenly just not together. and if the fricking pianists don't start watching me, i'm going to... do... something. drastic.
and now, i'll post what i wrote yesterday. but in a locked post, because it goes into detail about individuals.
sigh. much as i'm loving all this, i wish the people who planned this had... well, planned it. everything's being done after the fact, like patchwork. oh! you all need stands? ok, we can find stands. oh! you mean you all need black stands? ok, we can get those. 3 days later and we still don't have all the right stands. i would think they would have had a 'what will the instrumentalists need' session some time months ago. alas.
but i don't really need to be bitching about other people. the real scare yesterday was my own performance. dudes, it's hard. when the singers get off - ahead or behind - i'm supposed to keep the others with them and together and sometimes it's almost impossible. and it's terrifying when things are suddenly just not together. and if the fricking pianists don't start watching me, i'm going to... do... something. drastic.
and now, i'll post what i wrote yesterday. but in a locked post, because it goes into detail about individuals.
