Saturday
April 5th. Today the course began first at 14.00 so I had a good night sleep.
Because the premiere for the musical theatre production Bus number 13 is
tonight, I had to pack a lot with me for quite a long day.
Today it’s
time for the second weekend of conducting, this time with Tuomas Hannikainen as our teacher. He also teaches conducting at the
Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He is not quite as much into technique as Juha Törmä, who was our teacher last week. (Although I heard Hannikainen is quite
different, that is to say much stricter with technique with his students at the
Academy.) I liked very much his way of teaching. He was a very enthusiastic man
who was very exact with us that we show music and expression and what we want
to make out of the sheet music we had in front of us.
Again it
was very interesting to watch the other pupils Tuomas Kettunen and Hannes Merisaari conduct my song cycle Dagbok. I learn a lot both about conducting as
well about how to write (compose) a clearer and better orchestra score! As I
mentioned, I have very rarely played in an orchestra (twice as a soloist, and one
summer camp playing cello in the youth orchestra led by Anna-Maria Helsing, the
times before she was famous). So I sat beside the French horn today and noticed
how hard it was to hear the soloist and how you mainly hear the instruments
closest to you but not really the whole picture. (Self evident things for
orchestra musicians of course.)
As the
course began first at 14 o’clock today it also ended much later and I had to
leave early, before the feedback session due to the premiere of Bus number 13.
It was really a pity I missed the feedback session! But Hannikainen offered he
could give me feedback next morning before the course would begin (so that
means at 9.30), which was really nice of him!
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