On Tuesday, Dr. K sent out an email with dates for our Carnegie Hall rehearsals. This was one of the pluses for being off this week--I saw it pretty quickly, texted him about it, then when he mentioned he was working from home, I gave him a call. The issue is that while the May dates should be fine, the June dates conflict with summer concert ( Read more... )

Saturday. Concert time. Our call time wasn't until 1:30; I left about 12:30 so I'd have plenty of time to get there and run through Stars & Stripes a couple times and what have you. I saw trombone P in the band room and got to tell him what Dr. K had said, about P and D being cool people to hang out with, and that made his day. He's such a nice ( Read more... )

Friday. I had four late days in a row, and I topped it off with an early day. Part of why I didn't want to meet any earlier than 8:30 was because I was able to take my early Monday schedule and modify it--I was able to get done the things I'm used to getting done in the morning and just shower earlier and, obviously, skip eating. I pretty much ( Read more... )

Thursday. We're to do the run-through of our concert, though not in order. Because of our special guests, we did things based on when certain people would be there. For example, our first piece was the new big patriotic piece that has a narrator, and Dr. K invited his former boss, Dr. C, to do the narration. This is a person who is a professor of ( Read more... )

Director A had a conflict last Thursday, and a weekend rehearsal means a better chance of Dr. K being able to attend, so that's what happened this weekend: Band on Sunday. That's...not really my favorite thing ever, since my weekends have a solid routine, particularly on Sundays, but also because my right arm has been having issues for the past ( Read more... )

I talked to Dr. K last night. It's been a few months since we've really talked. I've been wondering how school was going, and as I told him last night, I've had a lot of negative thoughts about him leaving, but the more I talk to him, the better I feel. His new city has really taken to him. He had a guest conducting gig Monday night with an older ( Read more... )

There's been a lot going on the past few days. Three late nights in a row. Oh, boy ( Read more... )

Our first concert of the new era was this past Thursday. For three years now we've had a pretty standard situation--the guest band gets the big band room; we get some of the smaller rooms downstairs. Except, as it turns out, those cost money. So when I got there and saw Director A in the doorway to the band room, she gestured for me to go in there ( Read more... )

( What happened after band. )

I wrote on Thursday that I was anxious about band. I didn't go into it then, but I've had a lot of anger about the situation since the last time Dr. K was there, which is why it's been nice that I hadn't seen him since. Like, I *really* didn't want to see him, and as I got closer and closer to band on Thursday, I kept having to remind myself to ( Read more... )