{"id":1462,"date":"2020-09-29T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2024-06-28T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:40:16","slug":"in-the-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/in-the-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a while back about playing in a production of West Side Story &#8211; but that wasn&#8217;t my first (nor my last) experience of being in a &#8220;pit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My first such experience came when a few of us were asked if we would be willing to travel to Kingussie to help out the orchestra in the school production of Pirates of Penzance &#8211; if I remember correctly we were a trumpet, horn, trombone, clarinet and viola(?) &#8211; perhaps someone will correct me if I am wrong! Anyway &#8211; when we got there we found that we were actually about half of the total orchestra \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>It was a good production though &#8211; the music teacher was extremely enthusiastic and had trained the cast very well and everyone was enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we noticed quite quickly was that her conducting style &#8211; whilst effective &#8211; wasn&#8217;t always conventional. In particular she had a habit of not bringing you off at the end of a section. At the end of the first act on the second night we decided that we would wait for her to actually bring us off &#8211; it was a very long last note before she twigged what was going on \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pmBq_xtuOUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert &#038; Sullivan :  Pirates of Penzance &#8211; When the Foeman Bares His Steel<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmBq_xtuOUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>you rascal \ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a while back about playing in a production of West Side Story &#8211; but that wasn&#8217;t my first (nor my last) experience of being in a &#8220;pit&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-musical-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}