October 11, 200718 yr What is the oddest and most interesting job you have heard of or actually worked that relates to music? I was once offered a job to play live, soothing music with my vibraphone (solo) during yoga lessons. This was after I had just finished playing a solo piece for a concert which in my opinion was anything but soothing. Nothing happened with that job. That's not too weird but I bet there are some crazy ones that the Y.C. community has encountered. I didn't see a thread like this so my apologies if this is an old discussion.
October 11, 200718 yr Uhm... There's this girl with her masters in composition who has an interesting gig. The local symphony had cameras installed in their hall that focus on different members of the orchestra as they play. The images are projected on screens at either side of the stage. This girl has to follow along the score and focus on whoever has "THEIR BIG SOLO" so that we can all see the funny face they make when they play.
October 11, 200718 yr Author That's pretty good. It reminds me of an inconvenience my percussion teacher told me about the LA philharmonic percussion section. Before they started filming the entire orchestra in a 360 degree view the percussion section use to hide magazines and books in their stands and read them during the long periods of time when they had ungodly amounts of rests. Now they can't do that because the camera will catch them.
October 13, 200718 yr I don't know if this is counts, but there was a pretty interestingly behaved composer who tried to do his job assisting musicians rather potently as he would say. I wouldn't want to be a member of Jerry Goldsmith's orchestra in his older years, because I might have gotten a heart attack. My friend Nathan Mills played violin for him and his clique, and he said Goldsmith dressed up in all sorts of eccentric costumes and frightened the instrumentalists when they weren't playing loudly enough or something or other....Frequently the rehearsal stages Nathan had with him were booby-trapped with joke material, and he arranged it so he could run around the orchestra and talk or whisper into peoples' ears while they were playing: as if he were conducting in a verbal of course, but more personal way. He was pretty much a clown for a composer, but a pure clown at that. Now that's cheesy! :w00t: I might get a little annoyed by it, but I'm pretty sure he was doing it on a very personal level.
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