Meeting minutes: 4/2/2006

Who: Victor, Glenn, David, Martin, Mary Beth
Where: South Boston

Victor, David and Martin began the meeting by looping the A section of Third Relation. Glenn and Mary Beth arrived and joined in. We played looped the section for about 15 minutes. Some discussion about thumb and wrist positioning. Then we looped the first descending section, then did some short exercises based on the 2-3-1 fingering. Went back to playing the descending section (sounded better now), followed by playing the whole piece. We then took a short break.

We then ran through the rest of our repertoire for the EarthDay gig: Bartok piece (best we've ever played it, IMO), Eye of the Needle (this also sounded strong), Larks Thrak, Asturias, Moving Force, Bicycling to Afghanistan, Growing Circle, Bach Invention #1. Glenn was showing Victor the lead for Growing Circle as David and Martin left.

No meeting next week. Victor, David and Martin to meet 4/16, Victor, David, Martin and Mary Beth to meet 4/23.

DBK

Meeting Minute 3/28

Attendees: David, Glen, Martin, Mary Beth and Victor
Locations: Victor's House, Roslyndale

David, Martin,and Victor began practice by looping the bass descending part to Growing Circle. Glen arrived and we continues to work on this piece. We ran the repertoire for the MIT gig, Bartok, Moving Force, Larks Thraak, Askesis, Third Relation. Victor commented to Martin to not worry about the phrasing during the C# bass section of Askesis and similarly the 1/4 in the R&R section of Thraak, that was not pushing the 4 enough. During the trio running of BTA, there were various mistakes and stops and starts. At one point David was laughing and Glen
said he would not accompany laughter. The last run thorugh of BTA was much improved. Mary Beth arrived from teaching a belly dancing class and the Bach Invention 1 was run. One execution was quite good but fell apart toward the end. David left and EotN was run and sounded quite qood.