Saturday Rehearsal

I warned everyone that I planned to videotape this rehearsal. I had it all planned out. For the first hour, I would rehearse the five songs that the church choir is singing separate from the other ensembles. We have sung all of them before, so it should just be a matter of brushing up. Then Kiel would come at 5 and record each song. We might do several takes. After all, I will be sending this to my advisor for critiquing and teaching. I want it to be the best we are able to do.

But somewhere along the line, I lost sight of the schedule. One of the pieces which we had just sung last fall simply wasn't coming together well. So I took the time to really work on it. And then it reached a place where we were comfortable enough with it for it to come to life. I didn't want to interfere with that! So we kept working on it.

And then Kiel was there and we hadn't even taken a break yet. Much less worked on all the songs! Yikes! But there was no help for it. We took a quick break while he set up, then ran the piece we had just been working on. After three false starts, we finally got a take. I looked at the clock and hurried on the the other piece we had practiced. Two takes to get that one down. Time was flying away. Who would believe that in 2 hours we didn't get through 5 short songs, none of which are longer than a few minutes!

We recorded the rest, and whatever happened, happened. One was OK, another not bad, and the last one, well, we were tired. Everyone was ready to go home. So we just left it as is. I know we have a ways to go. Its just a bit farther than I thought!