Nielsen's 4th... Holy xxxx

[Ken Smith]

Ok, it's done. We did it. Thanks to the Tymp's behind me it covered a lot of the faster note mistakes. We only had about 4 hours of rehearsal over 3 days. I think it was way too little and there is a 6 bar (one bass) solo as I mentioned before.

In the Beeth. Triple, there is one Bass/one Cello through most of the first movement after the first page. The conductor had 2 Celli/1 Bass though. That was the easy part of the night in comparision to the Nielsen.

I think it's a very hard piece to perform and with a part time orchestra, not the piece to play, ever.....!

I would like to play it again a few more times and get at least a second chance. If one or two basses are off it makes it difficult. As a section, Basses and Cellos it was.. Ok at best or maybe passable for the audience but if this was an audition, we would have all failed it. I would have failed even myself!

So, there it is. The first Concert if the season and I would have rather watched re-runs on TV!