Tuesday 10th February - Day 2

Well after today we can certainly say that we're all deeply involved in the project! We started off the day with a brief chat with Andrew about our plan so far. He also brought in the college's 2 alpine horns which we quickly got out and started trying them out, as any brass player would do of course. Another instrument and idea added to our many already and something else to incorporate into our plan!

A good bit of fun with Alpine Horns.

We decided to go to the library to collect as much music as possible to be arranged and put into our group composition. By each taking a section to work on, the wonderful resources of the library and IMSLP meant we actually managed to find everything, except sorting out the fanfare for the opening - not going to tell you anymore about the content of the composition though as I'd hate to spoil the surprise!

Hard at work in the library.

The afternoon we spent working out what we're going to do for the opening fanfare - so many ideas to work through and we're even talking about what staging we might include in the performance too. Although there's a picture, the plan will probably change as we develop our ideas...
Unfortunately, one of the fanfares we want to use was only available in a study score so in order to practice it without wasting too much time Sandy very kindly wrote it out on the whiteboard in a short score form.

Rehearsal of some arrangements.

 Today showed me that we all work really effectively as a group and can achieve so much more than expected in a short amount of time. It's only Tuesday but the amount we've learnt and explored already is fantastic, we can't wait to perform to everyone!