It required careful attention to fingerings and bowings, and I spent hours working and reworking the fingerings. The main difficulty with the music for me was the speed. So, I spent most of the fall concentrating on the CCO music.įinally, I found time for the Onstage music: Tchaikovsky’s Waltz from “The Sleeping Beauty” ballet, Coleridge-Taylor’s “Danse Negre,” Mascagni’s “Intermezzo” from the opera “Cavalleria rusticana,” selections from Grieg’s “Peer Gynt,” and Saint-Saens’s “Bacchanale” from the opera “Sampson et Delila.” I took a quick look at it and decided, inappropriately, as it turned out, that the music would be relatively easy. We received our music in early September, just as the Cape Community Orchestra rehearsals were beginning. One hundred four of us came from 67 towns and numerous community orchestras across Massachusetts for the 2017 program.įive other members of Cape Community Orchestra attended: Jeanne Reid and Louise Brady, violin Rosemary Uppvall, cello Robert Reynolds, clarinet and Salvatore Chines, French horn. This was the third time the program had been offered earlier concerts were in 20. The program is designed to offer adult musicians who love music but have pursued alternate careers to experience a “day-in-the-life” of a professional musician. Not just the January 14 performance at Boston’s Symphony Hall-a magnificent structure whose acoustics are considered among the finest in the world and where so many extraordinarily talented people have performed-but the whole process: that first email, actual BSO sheet music, practicing and learning about the music, the inspiring rehearsals with our wise and good-natured conductor, Maestro Thomas Wilkins, meeting BSO staff and other orchestra members, and the impact it all has had on our practicing and playing. I was pretty sure most people would be more accomplished than I, but I knew this was something I wanted to do. Now, at 69, I am a very enthusiastic, mostly competent, orchestra performer, but hardly a virtuoso. I took up the cello late in life-at the age of 52. Those selected would be part of an orchestra that would perform at Symphony Hall. Onstage at Symphony Hall would be the realization of a dream for any adult amateur musician. The minute I saw the email, way back in July, I knew I wanted to participate.
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