Conducting is starting to click today. I don't want to get too excited- it's not perfect. But at least I feel like I'm starting to anticipate the music. That's always the issue- do I know it well enough that I'm anticipating instead of riding with the music. When I conduct Chichester Psalms at the beginning of the semester, the anticipation was easier than King David. Partly because the piece is shorter, partly because it's three movements instead of 27 incidental pieces, and partly because I had a lot more time to prepare.
But today... finally... I am starting to be at a good place with some of the movements. I have been so frustrated the past few weeks because I haven't been where I want to be with King David. And the good news today is that I am making progress!
My ladies sang through their set briefly last night at the end of the group rehearsal. We were missing almost half the choir, but that was fine. The only purpose was to sing through the pieces once and make sure they are fresh in the mind. The first piece, Hodie Apparuit by Orlando di Lasso, was sung with only three of our first sopranos there. And they are three sopranos who are sometimes timid. But they held it together and only had two places that really tripped them up. But they got back into it. I know it wasn't perfect, but I can't help be unbelievably proud of those three that stepped up.
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