Fred:
That's one of the reasons I get to work at 5:30. I can get more done between 5:30 - 10:00 am than any other time. Afternoon is a lost cause.
dp
David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu>
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:44 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Practicing on concert instruments...again...
On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jim Busby wrote:
I didn't put this in my post but he (the director) said (when told we couldn't keep it in tune as we do now if he did this) "It may just have to be out of tune for a concert, and we'll just have to live with that".
That's very interesting. Strange mindset. It's more important that the students practice on the piano more than that their recital and recording thereof have a decent tuning.
We'll never have this issue arise, because practice time is limited by time available in the hall, and it is booked pretty solid except early fall semester. Nobody can get more than one rehearsal, and some scramble to try to get that, what with a couple sections of Music Appreciation, various studio classes, master classes, recording sessions, and the demands of performances and one rehearsal per. I book tunings way ahead, and they always get eaten into. There aren't enough hours in the day for the hall. But we are bursting at the seams in general. I can hardly find an hour open in a lot of classrooms from 8 am to 8 pm.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>
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