It was too bad I couldn’t share the Renaissance dance concert with anyone, but I was blessed with the attendance of a number of special people at the concert on Thursday (Feb. 28th), which was more important because I played in it. Aside from playing Baroque oboe at the aforementioned Tanzabend last March because they were desperate, this was my first performance at the Schola. I should have realized it would be well attended and treated with importance because it was part of the symposium, but luckily I didn’t put things together until that day. The idea was to give a concert of improvised music, since after all that was the theme of the symposium. I was not good enough to be one of the improvisers, but I played the tenor line and improvised rhythms on it because the harp sound does not sustain long enough. Keeping the bray pins in contact with the strings and remembering the unwritten meter changes was challenge enough for me. It went fairly well and I enjoyed it. I recorded it so one day it might be in a form to share, for that was the intent.
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