Church gig number one went pretty well. Maybe I was still riding some of the energy from last night, but I felt pretty plugged into what was going on. The rehearsal seemed kind of casual, and then suddenly we had to run upstairs to play without having gone through everything. I think we kind of winged it on some stuff--there was a lot of music in the book today.
Here's something from the first service:
Mt Bethel, February 19, 2012 by David B Freeman
Tremendously phallic waveform.
In the second service, we accompanied the big choir for one song. When we went downstairs to rehearse it, I brought my clarinet. Mid song, the band leader called me over and said, "this should be sax, not clarinet!" I said, "I'll tell you about it later."
Upstairs, I told him that because the choir director hates my saxophone, I played clarinet for rehearsal so she wouldn't notice me. During the actual service (when she couldn't do anything about it), I let wail with the tenor. I'm pretty sure she thinks I cover up her highly polished singers; I'm pretty sure I add some soul to her square Methodist choir! She thinks I'm Albert Ayler.
Anyway…
Church gig number two was kind of blah. I played mostly flute…it was a pretty dull service as far as my input. There just wasn't much for me to do.
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