Category: Metropolitan

Dear Met Musician and Family, We just completed our sixth out of eight Monday rehearsals in preparation for our performance, which is just around the corner on Saturday, February 8! Attendance was strong this week, and we hope you felt positive about the progress the orchestra is demonstrating, both in terms of zeroing in on the notes and rhythms,

Dear Met musician and family, Nearly everyone has turned in their Rehearsal Attendance Sheet! Thank you for looking ahead and identifying potential conflicts with our upcoming rehearsals and performances. Believe it or not, this week was our third out of only eight Mondays we have together on this challenging repertoire. Your presence and participation in our limited time together will be

Dear Met musician and family, We hope you felt that rehearsal was productive and helpful on our new repertoire yesterday! There were a few more absences than we would have liked, but those of you present did a super job, as we started digging into this new music after our initial sight-reading session last week.

Dear Met Musician and Family, As we both commented last night, we are so very proud of your performance at “Play Your Part” earlier this month! Our orchestra has taken an enormous step forward in coming together to bring our music to life. All aspects of our work together have grown substantially since our first rehearsal this

Dear Met Musician and Family, Thank you for your concentration and excellent work at our well-attended rehearsal last night. We also appreciated Mr. Dan Duffy joining us on drum set, and Mr. Don Sipe sitting in with our trumpet section!   Looking ahead to our rapidly approaching Play Your Part performance at the Wilson Center for the

Dear Met Musician and Family, We have three Monday rehearsals remaining before our Play Your Part performance! We could tell that the orchestra took a step forward following your sectional sessions last week.   Are you on track with your personal preparation on this repertoire? Please use the work you have been doing both in rehearsal and with

Dear Met Musician and Family, We had a well-attended and productive rehearsal last night—our final session together before SECTIONALS next Monday!  One of the benefits everyone receives participating in MYSO–in part, due to the result of your efforts raising money during the Play Your Part campaign–is the hiring of this special team of professional musicians once per

Dear Metropolitan Musician, Congratulations on joining the mighty Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra! We are excited to begin working with you this fall. As the Music Directors for Met, we enjoy selecting challenging–and enjoyable–music for you to prepare and perform throughout the season. We also run rehearsals in an interesting way: we each conduct Met – and