Re: Re: Re: HAHAHAHAHAHA! I get to play BEETHOVEN!!


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Posted by Gerald J. on July 29, 2000 at 13:10:18:

In Reply to: Re: Re: HAHAHAHAHAHA! I get to play BEETHOVEN!! posted by Jay Bertolet on July 29, 2000 at 11:17:40:

While in graduate school, I played up to 7 musicals a year. The total
now is around 52, give or take. I need to make a new count. "West Side
Story" definitely is the most musically challenging, but I enjoyed the
attitudes of "Candide" far more. The rhythms in some orchestra
transcriptions of "West Side Story" aren't the same as Bernstein's.

One local theatre seats 3800 and I've heard my old bass echo off the
back wall with the house full, so I KNOW it was heard from the pit.

Except in the Wagnerian covered pits, one learns to play very quietly in
community theatre because of untrained and scared voices.

With the small pits in some venues, and the quiet voices, its chamber
music, sometimes with room for improvisation. I covered bass and cello
books in June, had a ball improvising running bass lines for the gavotte
in Cinderella. Different every performance. I played every note in the
bass book and three or four more per measure.

Every show book has errors, some more than others. A 7 line staff in "7 Brides" was a little confusing mixed in with the normal 5 line staffs.

Gerald


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