Month: June 2011

  • Eugene Onegin- 4th rehearsal

    Eugene Onegin- 4th rehearsal

    In order to help me write this blog I scrawl things in the margin of my score, then erase them when I’ve updated the post.  This week’s scrawls say: Marvellous Nearly marvellous Will be marvellous. This being either Nick or my assessment of where we’re at.  I write things down because my memory is unreliable…

  • Eugene Onegin- 3rd Rehearsal

    Eugene Onegin- 3rd Rehearsal

     Sunday Morning: Nick is back and tests us on what we’ve learnt with Duncan. “What would you give yourselves as marks out of ten?” he asks. “Four,”  “Two!” we compete to be self effacing in our judgement. “Well, I’d say it was a six, so let’s see if we can get to nine and a…

  • Eugene Onegin- 2nd rehearsal

    Eugene Onegin- 2nd rehearsal

    Thursday evening, and I should be at my writing group but here we are at Blackheath again, clutching our carefully marked up scripts. Jonathon is also clutching an article about charity shops, which we hope will help with finding our costumes.  It’s half term and we feel a bit thin on the ground, indeed Music…