A Modal Festival Rehearsal - 4/1/11

Pretty Good. Make sure to attack the note with your bow. It seems very together at the begining.
We have really improved at mez. 17. our work has paid off, but still watch the intonations. f natural!!!
I need to watch those too. Watch f natural at 45 violas. Mkae sure its the right tempo too. haha. Cellos and Violas need to work on 67.

This piece sounds so cool , especially at 53! we were all together (for the most part) and stayed a steady tempo. The dynamics weren't very clear though...
and 61 was pretty bad - because it is so hard to go from pizz to a note in the next measure!!!
definitely our best piece(:

Overall it was very good. I thought that when we were plucking it was very gentle and nice. However the measures after plucking were not in tune.

1.Starting was strong and together
2.Need to work on getting third position E in tune
3.Need to work on getting f flat in tune
4.Good staccato like slurs
5.Measure 25-29 stayed together
6.the Ds in measure 47 needs some work
7.We weren't together in measure 49 but good attack
8.Good staccatos from maesure 53-60
9.Need to work on maesure 61
10.Nice ending (stayed together)

It sounded pretty good but at measures 49 & 50 i think we need to accent those notes more and also the firsts sounded wonderful :)

for first violins some peopleare play high f shaps on the e string through out the peice. some of the high d's were also out of tune. plus some people are using open a too much.

Measure 27 could use some more work but over all we did very well

the beginning sounds muggy. First violins at 17 through 25 still needs some work. Between 37 and 53 could be softer. The pizz. sounds very well together but then when the arco starts...sounds...uh... "crunchy."

I think I heard only one person playing at measure 27, and thta made a huge difference from the previous measure.

I think we were well together i think we need to be more in tune but otherwise we sounded good.

Overall it was really good. M.61 needs to be worked on because it's hard to transition from pizz to arco. M.45 for 2nds needs to be louder, and more distinct.

The begining was together very well. At 45 we sort of fell apart because we were not together and it did not sound in tune but at 53 we got it back together for the pizz. I think 53-61 was well together and we did not speed up and i think that we ended the sond very strong and lound. One last thing is that at 71 some people played the notes too long.

I can't listen to this either.. but we need to be sharper and separate the notes more accurately. I think fixing our postures will help with this. And maybe less talking about things other than the music pieces(AHEM), too. Pizz. has gotten a lot better, but still a long away from perfection.

I think the violins were at different places for the pizzicato from measure 53-61.
But we did a great job at accenting the notes:)

Really good! Cellos need to work on the shifting at 57-64 and I think it would sound better if the cellos would play closed A at spots like 8 and 28. We were all together and I thought intonation was pretty good too!