A few more words about the concert band.We're a mixture. We are full-time performers. We're part-timers. We are educators. We are former MUs who who have returned to playing horns that sat in the closet for decades.
So, as you might imagine, the first rehearsal of at an NMA reunion is often, shall we say, tentative. We haven't played together in a year; some are joining us for the first time. We're sight reading new material. We're trying to create a cohesive sound. And we're not all here yet; travel plans and scheduling needs often conspire to give us only half a band on Day One.
Yesterday's first rehearsal was, however, atypical. One thing you didn't see in the rehearsal hall today was empty chairs. Attendance is up for this 20th anniversary reunion, so we had a full house.And what a difference it made. Our sound was big, sometimes too big. Our conductors were in the unusual position of having to quiet the band down on the first day, rather than try to pull a full sound out of the group.
More players showed up after rehearsal yesterday. So, today we'll face a new problem: where to put them all.
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