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horse sense

last saturday was the 2nd rehearsal of life’s too short which focused on the having the group sing and play. its clear now that hubris got the best of me. my idea was to use the ensemble as a greek chorus to accompany the soloist and to rotate the orchestration so that 2 or 3 players would be available to sing at any time. in my mind i could see it clearly, and it was not for lack of effort of the ensemble that it was a failure. (thanks guys for trying without any complaints) of course now i really feel like a loser. it seems lately i have been working out many of my “technical problems” in previous pieces. much of the counterpoint and orchestration from my long suffering fearless leader led to a much cleaner and clearer instrumental continuo in life’s too short, and i already can see how to solve this problem of having the ensemble do some singing and i still might have them sing at the end, but overall its clearly not the right type of piece for this. while i’m flogging myself over this i thinks its valid to point out that i knew there was a pretty chance that it wouldn’t work, but i have a pretty stubborn side that has to follow through to the gruesome end to prove the point. my grandfather called this horse sense and it would have been damn well easier to get kicked in the head when i was younger.

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