After warming up to the music of the icelandic group, South River Band we got right down to practising on the instruments.
Scales, patterns, ostinatos _ we whizzed through them this morning, eventually playing, in 2 parts, the 'Instrumental Piece' from Orff's 2nd volume of compositions for percussion ensemble and we can now begin to hear the distinctive, charming quality of these arrangements.
In spite of having to sing over hammering and drilling from next door due to refurbishment of that room, our Boomfallera sounded out loud and clear and the instrumental parts of that are even coming together.
I look forward to incorporating flutes and mouth organs next week when Jim, Malcolm, Carol, Joan and Diana bring their instruments along.
