1pm Rehearsal w Don McGlashan. We are learning a piece of music called "Yekermo Sew" by Mulatu Astake. Its for a gig organized by Nick Dwyer, a multicultural fest at mid-day Sun 27th in Mt Roskill Park. Its a pretty straight forward tune, though Don is playing the melody on Euphonium which seems quite challenging!
3:30pm A drum lesson, focusing on the rhythm pyramid and the preliminary jazz independance exercises. A good lesson. Taylor is doing well.
8pm Opening night of Poor Boy. Well it went okay I thought. The bands performance was generally excellent though we had a few weird moments - which probably went unnoticed by the audience.. The comments after the show were generally along the lines of "wow the music was great" (which it is!!) the subtext being that the play wasn't so good... Sure it isn't everyone's cup of tea I guess. The story is growing on me. It has a lot of depth. Has Raymond done it justice as director?? Perhaps not... perhaps it needs to be dirtier, more dynamic... The sound effects in the play are terrible in my opinion. AH well.. come and see it and you be the judge!
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