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So…a week ago I was just coming home from the dress rehearsal for Messiah, feeling better about it than I had at the first rehearsal with GuestConductor.  He had slowed fractionally at the first orchestra rehearsal on Sunday night, when the orchestra also had some problems…and we’d left just as the soloists were starting their rehearsal.  Dress rehearsal was pretty much straight through, with soloists in their order, and there was another fractional slowing.  Not quite enough, and the tempo was still not steady through some of the faster choruses (speeding up as we went along.)  But by this time we had figured out what to do about it–thanks to the tools that UsualConductor had given us over the previous rehearsals (and, in my case, the years of singing under him and taking voice lessons from him.)

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