It has been ages, dear Knights, and a progress report is due. Over the past many months, I have done the following:
- Re-upped with the band kids.
- Sang my first two open mics ever at Bar 4.
- Started a brass quintet, played Christmas gigs all over NYC (a goal since my arrival in 2004).
- Subbed for the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra and played a gig with the Metro Chamber Orchestra. Gave my contact info to several other brass players, on request, and have begun to get offers for paying gigs on the NYC horn circuit.
- Finished and recorded my first arrangement (if you don't count my attempt to arrange the Indigo Girls for wind band in college), one that's been in my head since 2003.
- Started a writers' group, wrote some poems; reaffirmed my feminism.
- Conducted a choir for the first time since 2003. (And this time, mercifully, not 300+ middle schoolers.)
And the grand finale is a case of right person, wrong time. For the past 2-3 years, I have been looking for a drummer for SMK. For the sound I have in my head, I must must have a percussionist. Without one I've been spinning in circles. I have posted Craigslist ads, I have asked friends and colleagues, including a certain grade 'A' percussionist who was willing but who felt her lack of drumset specialization precluded her from joining. Since then, however, she has been banging on found percussion (which, for my vision, is the best kind of all!) and therefore:
- As of last week, I am collaborating with this lovely perc pro who, in about 15 minutes, was able to intuit and execute exactly what I'd been carrying around in my head all this time. Easy. And we are playing the Bar 4 open mic on Tuesday, April 23. #LWatCDR.
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