[Menvi-discuss] Sight-reading

[Bettie Downing]

Sorry.  Someone beat you to it several weeks ago.  It IS funny, though, and my band director thought so, too.


On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Dewald van Deventer wrote:

> I always wanted to chek out a harp.
> I never saw one. Sounds complicated to play.
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> Just a quick joke, if i'm permitted;:
> A guy playing in the percussion section in a rehearsal once, had a really bad day. He kept playing at the wrong beats etc.
> Then the conductor teased him and said to the whole orchestra at large:
> "You know what happens to a person when he can't play the instrument propperly. They take away his instrument and give him two sticks.":
> And, softly, from the purcussion section came the reply:
> "And if he can't cope with that, they take away one stick, and make him a conductor."
> Smile.
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:55 PM
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> Sometimes you can play with a local group.  Forget the New York Philharmonic.
> My student is in college now, and he does not play anymore.
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> As for following a conductor, the violins have it easy because they can tell what to do by hearing the other violins.  If you played a wind, it would be much harder because they don't run in a pack like the strings.
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> Also, as a harpist, I practice my parts with recordings, so when I'm practicing, I'm playing without seeing a conductor. 
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> Some orchestra or band players don't look at the conductor much.  You can tell during rehearsal because when the conductor wants to stop and tell them something, there will be people still playing after he's given the signal to stop, so you know they weren't watching him.
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