Cienega Indoor Brass completed its second live performance Saturday, March 1 at Sabino High School. I am more than happy to say it was an unqualified success! Members put to the floor the musical and visual revisions learned just days before in an effort to tone down what turned out to be several moments of awkward silence that, well, weren’t really intended to be awkward, but impressive. I’m pleased to announce the changes helped a lot. As did the work spent this week on the beginning segment of the show.
It’s always a good thing when the time spent hacking away at a mess shows up in a performance. 
We don’t have a performance next weekend, but instead, the weekend after. This gives us two weeks to throw on as much show as possible. The goal is to have the first four minutes on the floor by the end of Tuesday night and be able to run through it all. These two weeks are also spring break, so we’ll have people floating in and out of rehearsal, unfortunately, but, well, there’s not much that can be done, except push ahead as quickly as possible and hope for the best. My goal for the next performance is to do all of Movement One and Two with movement, and as much of Three as we can. I’m aiming for up through the first big hit, just so we end on a strong note.
At this point, we’re waiting on the kids to master their music to a level where they can add movement to it. Our progress is completely dependent on the effort they put into learning new material. I know they’re more than capable of taking some giant strides here in the next two weeks, but I’ll keep my mouth shut and wait and see where we’re at two nights from now.
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