My first orchestra concert

Wow is all i can say. We played Mahlers 4th symhony. Really pretty piece, but a real snoozer for percussion. I played bass drum for this piece and played a grand total of 22 measures. I was curious as to how long this piece is and to my amazement, it is 53:30 long. That is a long ass time to just sit there. I am very greatful to have gotten the opportunity to play on the Mahler, but now I want to write an orchestra piece that is an hour long percussion feature with string accompaniment. The thing drove me nuts the most during rehearsal was when a string player would complain about counting rests. When you play in 95% of a piece you should not complain.


I found orchestra rehearsal is a great time to complete any homework that you need to do. My personal favorite subject to work on is Music Theory during orchestra. Although Dr. Wick strongly advised me not to work on homework during orchestra, I do it anyway. When I am doing something I will stay put and not make an idiot of myself or worse draw unwanted attention to myself. I think I will take my chances of doing homework during orchestra and if Dr. Phillips catches me and gets mad I will tell him that Dr. Wick told me it would be good to do theory during orchestra.