- You will have bad page turners.
- When students say, “The piano part is easy,” they’re lying.
- Moments after you accept a gig, another one will come along for the same time that pays more and is closer to your house.
- When you’re overwhelmed in December and April, you should think of July.
- When you’re bored in July, you should think of December and April.
- Follow the conductor, not the chorus.
- When you finally decide to recycle the photocopies that you haven’t needed in months, someone will ask for them.
- It really is a small world.
- People who forget to tell you they’ve cancelled their lesson are infinitely more annoying than people who call you “accompanist.”
- You should’ve practiced more yesterday.
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How To Learn An Orchestral Reduction
- Declare valiantly that you will learn the orchestral reduction exactly as written because of the small fortune spent on fancy conservatory training.
- Develop insecurities about your technical ability, practice habits, and value of aforementioned training.
- Curse the editor, who forgot that humans have only ten fingers and probably couldn’t play the stupid reduction either.
- Listen to recordings and/or study the full score. Recognize the ingenuity of the composer while continuing to curse the editor who tried to cram every note into the reduction.
- Swallow pride and reduce the orchestral reduction. Does this make it an orchestral concentrate? (Tee hee. My husband will be proud of that one.)
- Practice, practice, practice.
How do you count half-note triplets in 4/2 meter?
This post is for sopranos singing Dallapiccola’s Canti di prigionia, and people who like math.
I’m counting in quarter notes, since the tempo is pretty slow. The half-note triplets are every 8/3 of the bar, which is 2-2/3 and 5-1/3 in fractions, or 2.67 and 5.33 in decimals.
I’m singing it like this, which is not 100% accurate, and watching JO.
Eileen Huang 