{"id":377,"date":"2007-06-23T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/06\/23\/dress-rehearsal-part-i\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T17:03:31","slug":"dress-rehearsal-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/06\/23\/dress-rehearsal-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday with the SMP 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">This hall has wireless, so this is my first-ever mid-dress rehearsal blog post, which I thought would be an interesting exercise\u2026.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">We\u2019ve just finished the Shostakovich. We rehearse in a very loud, reverberant room, and this is a very dead, but clear hall. For the first five minutes or so, it was a total shock. Even though we know this hall well and try to rehearse with this space in mind, it\u2019s just a physically different sensation playing in this space. In each movement, there was a sense of edginess not only in the sound, but in the temp- here we have to lay back, play rounder and longer, and breathe slower. By the end, the hall didn\u2019t seem like a factor anymore. It\u2019s still a daunting piece, but I think it\u2019s in quite good shape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">These days, its common to treat a dead hall as a problem to be solved in the mastering suite. Of course, you can add the actual reverb of Carnegie Hall with the computer, and it helps, but what you can\u2019t do is go back and give the players the sensation of playing, moving and breathing in a space that encourages their sound. In a dead hall, you\u2019ll always struggle to maintain the same fluidity and flexibility in everyone\u2019s physical relationship to the sound, and post-production can only cover, but not cure that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Gemma\u2019s here, and I\u2019m just off to talk to her. We did Lalo together about three or four years ago- it\u2019ll be interesting to see if and how her playing has evolved. Of course, the Schumann and Lalo are such different pieces, you can\u2019t really make a comparison!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">lightly behind schedule as always.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">This is the hottest hall I\u2019ve ever worked in. People thought their varnish was melting in the Shostakovich! Seriously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">KW\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/06\/23\/dress-rehearsal-part-i\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hall has wireless, so this is my first-ever mid-dress rehearsal blog post, which I thought would be an interesting exercise\u2026.\u00a0 We\u2019ve just finished the Shostakovich. We rehearse in a very loud, reverberant room, and this is a very dead, but clear hall. For the first five minutes or so, it was a total shock. 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