David Freeman Music

Wednesday, April 1-Sunday, April 5, 2026: Kennesaw, GA. Work in the theater pit continued with a few more long (five hour!) rehearsals and then the eventual opening weekend of the show. I think our performance gradually got better--some of it was from the repetition, and some of it was from learning what the conductor would do and what the cast would do, and being able to anticipate that. It never got all the way there, though, and several things that were musically sloppy never improved, and that was frustrating. It also made me question whether I was also part of the problem--am I in tune? am I rushing? am I listening for the right thing? I played alto flute, piccolo, clarinet, and C flute for this show dinner (penne and frozen vegetables and a can of diced tomatoes) in my car during a break the set   I guess I'd never given much thought to who arranged the music for a musical--doesn't the composer do this?--but this show changed at some point from having three woodwind book...

Picking up from the end of February, where we'd just played a show in Ft Worth, and now were leaving the bus tour to go and play a one-off corporate gig in San Diego... March 2, 2026: Travel day. We weren't scheduled to leave the hotel in Texas until noon, so I got up and ran a little bit in the morning, just in case I didn't feel like doing any exercise at the end of the day. A quick four miles, a shower, and then onto the airport shuttle.  I had a crappy lunch at a TGI Fridays in the airport (another fake hamburger and fries). Eventually, we got on the plane at D/FW and flew to San Diego for a private gig, with a brief, rainy layover in Salt Lake City.    The hotel where we stayed in San Diego had these really weird elevators with no buttons for individual floors on the inside. You scanned your key card where you'd normally push the button to call and elevator, and it would assign you to a particular car (and if you weren't fast enough to get on it in time, you w...