Creation, catastrophe, and a wall of horn sound This week’s gigs with the KSO put me in the third horn chair. A thankless position, really. Not principal. Not second. Not the flashy exposed heroics or the harmonic glue everyone politely ignores. Third horn lives in the interior, structural, supportive, occasionally ominous, frequently essential. It’s an inspiring place to sit. By … Read more
Horn player musings of creation – from the second performance. Warm-Up Warm-up is a strange place. Nothing officially counts, yet everything matters. Notes are tested, breath is measured, confidence negotiated quietly with physics. It is preparation, but also possibility. Looking down between my feet during warm-up, I saw it again. New universes. Not fully formed. Not confident. Small clusters and … Read more
Program notes for a universe formed during intermission – Performance night one. Observed shortly before intermission. Note the presence of the creator’s feet for scale, accountability, and mild judgment. At first glance, skeptics will say the image above is just a spill.Condensation. Gravity doing what gravity does. A little gross, maybe inconvenient, but ultimately meaningless. That theory collapses under even … Read more
Here we are, Day 22 — It’s gig time again. At a rehearsal up in Oak Ridge and during a lull I decided to take a few pictures of the stage and peoples with my phone. When I got to looking at the results, individually they seemed a little lacking. But, they each covered enugh of the stage that I … Read more
Day 17 – Here we go. Gig’s are over with but, today has been pretty slow… no pictures until I went to Quintet rehearsal. Waiting on everyone to show up, we decided a quick game of pool was called for. Then I remembered I needed a shot. Here ya go… Pool anyone? Nothing like a rehearsal space that also … Read more
It’s a gig day. And one that required a little bit of travel. So, with work an driving, the best I can give you today is a picture of the entrance to the rehearsal space up here in Kingsport. I know, it’s not exciting in the least. Nothing like the Duck Butts from yesterday, but these can’t all be winners, … Read more
Picture Day 14, So.. At the new Gig (working for the man) there is this Drainage pool behind the parking lot. Normally, this is just a large empty grassy hole. But, with all the rain we’ve had lately, this tends to fill up and turn in to a pretty respectable pond. It must be pretty good because these Ducks seem … Read more