Awesome weekend
Feb. 14th, 2011 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kumir_k9The Eastwyck team players from NERO spent the weekend at my place. This consisted of silway, thedeviantangel, draco, byron and talon. There was no IG session, just OOG bonding. We played games and talked and ate and ate and ate. We played multiple games of Settlers of Catan and RoboRally, both a lot of fun. Of course I didn't win a single game all weekend, but it was still fun.
Monique did her usual amazing job of making too much food for everyone. Let's just say the scale was not my friend this morning.
I miss playing with these fine folk. I miss playing Kumir. Sadly, I just can't go play while I'm doing 7V, so it probably won't be until late in 2012 that I play again.
Flute choir rehearsal was awesome. It was the first time in a very long time that we had that many people all at the same time. The sound was really good. It was nice to see that people had kept up with practicing over the break, a break extended by two rehearsals due to winter weather issues.
And then, there were 7V PELs. We got the vast majority of them in this weekend with a huge number yesterday, last night and the wee hours of this morning. I was up until after midnight processing and I still have about 20 to go. Silly 7V players, waiting until the last minute, but the PELs are so wonderful to read. I love our players.
Monique did her usual amazing job of making too much food for everyone. Let's just say the scale was not my friend this morning.
I miss playing with these fine folk. I miss playing Kumir. Sadly, I just can't go play while I'm doing 7V, so it probably won't be until late in 2012 that I play again.
Flute choir rehearsal was awesome. It was the first time in a very long time that we had that many people all at the same time. The sound was really good. It was nice to see that people had kept up with practicing over the break, a break extended by two rehearsals due to winter weather issues.
And then, there were 7V PELs. We got the vast majority of them in this weekend with a huge number yesterday, last night and the wee hours of this morning. I was up until after midnight processing and I still have about 20 to go. Silly 7V players, waiting until the last minute, but the PELs are so wonderful to read. I love our players.
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Date: 2011-02-14 10:07 pm (UTC)~Patrick
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:04 am (UTC)Flute choir is sort of a fuzzy term and different people will call them flute groups, flute ensembles, flute choirs and flute orchestras. Flute orchestra doesn't really come out unless the group also has contra-alto flutes, contrabass flutes or double contrabass flutes.
My group is currently working on an arrangement of a medley of Sound of Music songs, an original piece called Masques, an original piece in 5 movements called Greek Tableaux, an arrangement of Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov, an arrangement of the Jig from St. Paul's Suite by Holst, an original in 5 movements called Flutes and Vegetables and a few others.
If you'd like to hear some fine original flute choir music, including the Greek Tableaux above, check out http://www.flute.net/pubs/choir.htm and play the mp3 files. I highly reccomend Furry Leaves, Greek Tableaux, Winter Ride and Woodbridge Suite.
You can hear Masques here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekytBczCg9I). It's one of my favorite pieces written specifically for flute choir.
If you'd like to check out some of the arrangements I personally have done for the instrumentation there's a recording of my version of Scarborough Fair here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUsGREJ83YU).
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:09 am (UTC)Do you post when you have concerts? This seems like it would be really beautiful to hear in person.
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:14 am (UTC)I think the last time I played anywhere up in your area-ish was at Erin and Jay's wedding. Flute choir is a lovely medium for weddings.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:18 am (UTC)(especially me!)