First Rehearsal of the new season

First Rehearsal of the new season

by | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog, Rehearsals

The first rehearsal back after summer is always busy, people are catching up after a few weeks apart, forms have to be filled out and handed in and we have many new scared faces joining us for the first time. It can be quite daunting on your first day, as all of the older and former players can tell you. You might not know anyone there, or know where to go or what to do. But luckily for these new people there will be someone right next to them going through the same thing. And standing next to them is a member of the orchestra who has been around for a while, with a big smile on their face waiting to help them out. As the orchestra start to play the first piece (Fiddlers to the Fore) I looked around the room at all of the new players and they were just managing to follow along with the music. Which is where everybody starts off when they join, nobody gets it right away. The moved through to the other room to take the music a bit slower and have some extra direction, and just a few weeks later I heard them playing and I was blown away at how amazing they were and how much they had learned in just a small amount of time. Our newest member – of which there are a lot – are all very talented and I can’t wait to share a stage with them all at the Christmas Concert in December. Oh yeah, and the rest of the orchestra did a great job...