Wednesday
the 2nd of April. The day began with my piano class with Risto Kyrö at 9 AM. We
are now preparing the pieces I need to play in case I get invited for the
entrance exams for masters at the Sibelius Academy. I’m going to play Bach’s Prelude in e minor (from the first book of WTK), the last movement of
Beethovens pathetic sonata and the prelude “La Puerta del Vino” by Debussy. I have
played the Bach prelude a few years ago, so I have already quite a clear
opinion about how I want to play it. But Kyrö didn’t really approve of my
version at all. And I didn’t approve of his version either. I actually found it
really amusing, I felt like a little stubborn child who simply was saying
“no!”. Well, it’s hard to give in when the piece is dear to you and you feel you know
exactly how you want to play it. So all lesson we were discussing back and
forth and didn’t really come to any conclusion other than that I said “okay, I
can try it your way, although I don’t approve.”
After piano
class I went to the composition studio for correcting the orchestra score of
Dagbok. During the conducting course last weekend we found loads of small
mistakes. So I spent about 4 hours today looking through the score really
carefully and drawing in correction with a pencil pen in my printed version.
After that
I headed to Tampere Hall for seing the rehersals of Bus number 13.
Unfortunately I just came there at the end of their run through, so I only saw
the last 3 pieces. But it looked great! After the run through the director Auvo Vihro was giving feedback and everyone was so tired. There fore these photos,
where everyone looks really unmotivated and tired, after an almost 7 hour
rehersal. But I have to say; what a great and motivated team! It's been so much fun working with
all of them!
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| Our tired team. Roope Mäenpää (cb), Heidi-Annina Nikkilä (vln) , Eero Kokkonen (perc) and Anni Härkönen (vcl). Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| Singer Alina Lehti listening to Vihro. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| Singer Meerika Ahlqvist looking exceptionally tired after 7h rehearsal. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| Contrabass player and composer Roope Mäenpää paying attention to Vihros words. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| Clarinetist and saxophone player Andreas Heino listening to Vihro while Roope puts away his contrabass. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| An exceptionally tired singer Antti Kerosuo, in the background Anni Härkönen. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| Singer Meerika Ahlqvist checking if the shoe broke during rehearsals. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
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| An energetic Auvo Vihro is explaining what can be improved to a listening Antti Kerosuo. Rehearsal at Tampere Hall 2.4.2014. ©C.Damström |
After the rehearsal ended I went together with my classmate composers Jarkko Pajunen
and Timo Kittilä to listen to a composition concert of the children and
teenagers studying music at Pirkanmaan musiikkiopisto (Pirmanmaa music
institute). It was a very nice concert, where the children had in a workshop
them selves written poems (about all kind of random things) and then other
children had composed music inspired by the poems. The audience was asked not
to applause in-between, so it was a nice whole concert. The audience applauded
very much at the end instead. This same concert will also be performed on the 13th of April as a part of the Tampere Family Day.
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