Friday Pi-Day

I'm home right now waiting for the landscaping guy to come and give me an estimate on some work to be done to our yard. Basically, I didn't have enough time or energy to take care of the backyard and it is now a big huge jungle. I'm going to try to get him to completely remove the shrubs on one side of the house so I can start from scratch next spring.

Yesterday was okay. I had church rehearsal, which went okay, but I'll tell you, the altos are not doing nearly as well as they did last year. And V. doesn't really rehearse us properly. His idea of rehearsing is to run through a piece, and then it's rehearsed. Only the week that the piece is going to be performed does he stop and work on stuff, but by then everyone's already learned the mistakes, which makes it too late.

I'm doing this gig soon with the Muse in Westchester County. She sent me some music and a CD that she had put together, and when I got it in the mail and listened to the CD, I was kind of confused. First of all, the music on the CD was just the alto part out of an SSA harmony (which, if you didn't know, is not very melodious at all), and the music she sent me was, like most of the stuff she does, a piano/vocal score with only the melody written in. So I'm supposed to guess where my part fits in. I wrote to her and told her that this was a lot of work, because basically what I was doing to learn the music was transcribe my part into the music. Sheemailed me back and said that she never intended to make the music learning more work than we had originally talked about (what does that mean?). She insists that all I have to do is listen to the CD and memorize the words and I'll be fine. She also insists that my notes are in the accompaniment and I should find them just fine, but she's only about 80% correct. Dude, I don't WORK like that. Argh.