I’m back to my old schedule – Saturday is ‘orchestra day’, and this time I started with a meeting at the University’s student hall. Miranti the orchestra’s chairman led the talk about last week’s audition, the orchestra received over 90 applications and now the committee had to make decisions. There’s something tricky about a non-professional orchestra like ours – sometimes we attend the rehearsals for the sake of the fun of meeting friends and playing music together, other matters come second. Except when preparing a concert, we have no such ‘professional pressure’ because playing in the University orchestra is very much of a hobby. That’s why we need to have members with high self motivation to develop their musical skills themselves.
Unfortunately before the meeting was resumed, some of us, the alumni, had to excuse ourselves and head for a rehearsal with the amateur chamber music ensemble. This time we practiced Pergolesi’s Concertino No. 3, very very tricky. There are at least 4 voices for the violins only and most often we ended up laughing for being confused by the ‘conversations’ of the intstruments. Phew, we’ve got homework!
The meeting
Yusuf and Marcel
Popi and Fanny
Tika and Andi
all pictures were taken from my seat ;-)
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