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Rehearsal Notes

September 6

Open String Cycle—Detache and Spicatto

Symphony in D

  • Establish 3/4 feel

  • m. 1–23: Cello/bass bow stroke; Violins bowing

  • m. 53–64: establish sixteenth-note divisions and dynamics

  • Violins practice m.24–64 for next time!

  • Cellos practice m. 20–22

Nocturno Isleno

  • Son rhythm: practice clapping

  • D Harmonic minor scale: work on intonation

  • Violins practice m. 43–48

  • Violas practice m. 17–29

  • Cello/bass practice m. 43–58

Waltz for Sleeping Beauty

  • a new arrangement will be handed out next time