Three good things happened tonight while I was at rehearsal:
- I received a voicemail message from the casting director booking me for the Massachusetts Lottery commercial. Yay! A subsequent call arrived from wardrobe, providing me with instruction on what to bring to tomorrow’s fitting.
- The director assigned me “Ich folge dir gleichfalls” from J. S. Bach’s Johannes Passion, a lovely little ditty I’ll sing on March 15. So, if you will be in the Boston area at that time, come and listen!
- I received an email about Fate Scores, indicating early good press. See that photo there at the top of the article? A good-looking photo, right? Well, that’s my dear friend Albert prominently featured, but that photo wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for me. I took it! Yay me! (Say, 77 Square: Movies: Blog: what about some credit, eh?)
Now, all I’ve got to do is get rid of this nagging, wheezy cough I’ve picked up and I’ll be golden.
In the world of fun news: a short film I worked on has been accepted to the Wisconsin Film Festival! Fate Scores will be shown during the festival, which occurs 2-5 April 2009 in Madison, WI. I was assistant director under my good friend and performance colleague Albert M. Chan.
Founded in 1999, the Wisconsin Film Festival is the state’s premier film festival. This four-day annual festival takes place each spring in ten downtown Madison theaters (all walkable, TYVM), presenting new American independent and world cinema (narratives, documentaries, shorts, experimental films), restored classics and (of course!) the work of Wisconsin filmmakers. There are more than 150 films shown over the course of the event and it draws nearly 30,000 people.
Exciting! I haven’t got all the details yet, but when I do I’ll certainly post them here. This isn’t the most well-known of festivals, obviously, but it is the first acceptance for … Read more »
Today we recorded the score fALATIMI for the short film Fate Scores in only 17 takes. Well, there were a few more than that, but the mistakes happened so soon into the take (ahem… Fumito, on take 1) that they really didn’t count.
After we unloaded the marimba from the car, Fumito assembled it (again).
Kazuto got the recording equipment set up. He’s quite stealthy.
This is a shot of Christian and Hannah in action.
See that music stand on the left? That’s mine. It was the obligatory music-stand-that-never-stays-up-and-always-slides-down-really-fast in the room.
This shot shows Jason and Fumito in “the zone”.
Since I was taking the photos, I really couldn’t take a photo of myself.
But I can say that m. 18 did not kick my butt today. Yesterday’s practice clearly paid …
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Last evening we had another rehearsal of the score for short film Fate Scores.
First, we had to help Fumito disassemble the marimba and carry it downstairs.
This is what a marimba looks like in parts.
Hannah and Jason tightened up their duet in the Adagio.
m. 18 was still kicking my butt.
I have a hard time landing on that E-natural, despite the fact that the violin plays it at the same time.
This is m. 18 in context. See? It’s a mess. What was the composer thinking?
Top to bottom the lines are: Soprano, Violin, Cello, Marimba, Piano.
I have three days to solve my issues with m. 18.
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