33: Pre-Rehearsals (3)

The park next door to my home is getting an upgrade thanks to the federal government’s economic stimulus program. On Wednesday they were banging metal poles, one at a time, with a hammer. The steady tempo was quite pronounced and only slightly slower than the music we were trying to rehearse. This was very off-putting but Robert persevered and fortunately the intrusion didn’t go on for too long, but it was touch and go for a bit.

Yesterday a photographer from the local newspaper came over for a few shots. He had the wrong time, so we lost quite a bit of rehearsal time and only looked at Part Two. The photos were taken with me at the piano, which as I mentioned before, is not how we actually rehearse. We then moved outside into the hornist’s natural woodland habitat. My wife also snapped a few photos for this blog.