JAVS Fall 2011

Example 3a. Aaron Krerowicz, Luna , movt. 1 Cadenza.

Example 3b. Aaron Krerowicz, Luna , movt. 2.

Initial Rehearsals

are several bars of 7/8 that shift the woodblock part to the offbeat. In addition, there are several bars with rhythms such as 5 over 2 beats or 7 over 3 beats (ex. 4). It’s hard enough to play those rhythms accurately with a steady quarter-note beat going, much less one you have to play yourself! Because I didn’t have the foot pedal setup with the woodblock yet, I ended up practicing this piece with my Dr. Beat on as loud as it would go while I walked quarter notes as I played. It was quite a noisy piece to practice, what with the metronome and my stomping out the quarter notes with my feet!

Finally, it was time to put it all together. I flew to Los Angeles a few days after Christmas and joined Danny out in Desert hot Springs where he has a small house. It was the perfect place to rehearse intensively and not worry about bothering anyone with the ruckus we were going to make. Our rehearsals over the course of those two weeks were incredibly intensive, but we also joked that we should have set up a video camera to make a movie of bloopers. In addition to playing the piano and all of the percussion instruments that required sticks and mallets, Danny had four pedals on the floor with which to play other instruments, not to mention the three piano pedals. As we were getting

Example 4. Andrew McIntosh (arr. Danny Holt), All is Not Lost , mm. 14–19.

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