Our conductor, breaking the trend established so far this year, has rehearsed for nearly the entirety of the scheduled rehearsals everyday. And today's rehearsal felt a little like tech week. Someone was sick, everyone was tired, our conductor was a little cranky and loopy, shouting at us in Japanese from the house as he listened for balance. For one of his clothing changes, he wore a t-shirt with a profile picture of himself. Time seemed endless as the obligation to prepare for the concert seemed in the forefront of the maestro's mind. It felt like the times when I was younger and did musical theatre and there was no such thing as tired, even though everyone was exhausted. Just running on fumes.
And after orchestra rehearsal I had the pleasure of a brief hour long rehearsal for a quartet outreach concert. Music that we might normally play at a wedding but the pleasure of matching a bow stroke and vibrato, of listening to another person's phrasing and following it, of taking the initiative to imagine musical direction and to explore different possibilities, of hearing my own sound, my own voice. To be so tired but doing something that makes you forget it. Hoping to have more chamber music happen soon.
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