What no Partita?
Good rehearsal tonight, only let down was the trombone section but then one had been in a car accident and the other had a paying job! The excuses some people will come up with not to turn up:)
Curiously we didn’t spend any time on Partita (hence the title of this entry), the contest piece for the area contest in the 5 weeks time. Tonight we spent rehearsing things for the CD, Breezing Down Broadway, Basin Street Blues, Barnard Castle and Swedish Folk Song which is an arrangement of the hymn tune whose name escapes me at the moment but has words that go “O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder…Then sings me soul, my Saviour God to me”.
A lot of the band went down the pub afterwards too, which was good as it shows the band is growing socially as well as musically. This can only be of benefit in the long run when we can learn from each other and appreciate each others strengths and weaknesses and learn to work as a team. I think Martyn is aware of this now, as it seems he’s listened through the CD from Milton Keynes, and has had us not only trying to work together as sections but also working to balance against other sections of the band. I think this will be particularly important when we get our trombone section back as they are definitely the strongest part of the band at the moment and it’s difficult for the rest of the band to match up to them, so I think, as Martyn said tonight, there are some compromises to be made.