I only have 6 hours a week, but I go in on Saturday...pretty good access... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 12/3/2009 4:08:23 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Practicing on concert instruments...again... >Fred: >That's one of the reasons I get to work at 5:30. I can get more done between 5:30 >- 10:00 am than any other time. Afternoon is a lost cause. >dp >David M. Porritt, RPT >dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> >From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred >Sturm >Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 4:44 PM >To: caut at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Practicing on concert instruments...again... >On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jim Busby wrote: >I didn't put this in my post but he (the director) said (when told we couldn't keep it in >tune as we do now if he did this) "It may just have to be out of tune for a concert, >and we'll just have to live with that". > That's very interesting. Strange mindset. It's more important that the >students practice on the piano more than that their recital and recording thereof >have a decent tuning. > We'll never have this issue arise, because practice time is limited by time >available in the hall, and it is booked pretty solid except early fall semester. Nobody >can get more than one rehearsal, and some scramble to try to get that, what with a >couple sections of Music Appreciation, various studio classes, master classes, >recording sessions, and the demands of performances and one rehearsal per. I book >tunings way ahead, and they always get eaten into. There aren't enough hours in >the day for the hall. But we are bursting at the seams in general. I can hardly find >an hour open in a lot of classrooms from 8 am to 8 pm. >Regards, >Fred Sturm >University of New Mexico >fssturm at unm.edu<mailto:fssturm at unm.edu>
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