As a couple people here may know, I'm doing my big senior recital at the end of the week. This is a big deal...it's like the senior thesis for music majors. We present a public recital one hour in length, we prepare the music, find the assistants (accompanists, page turners, stage managers) and book the hall and publicize. So it's sort of a big deal. But, everyone does it, so it's cool.
Well, it's standard practice to put your chamber work (we're all required to do in depth study in a small mixed-instrumental group...like a string quartet or piano trio, for example) on your recital. Mine is a work for flute, cello and piano, and the pianist is my best friend.
Well, my pianists best friend took a really steady and high-paying gig. That gig has a performance that overlaps with my recital, and she'd probably be 10 or 15 minutes late to her performance. She can't get out of my recital...her performance in it is also graded and counts for a full hour of credit towards her GPA.
So she wants me to change the program order.
Now, the programs have already been ordered (being run tomorrow morning...I can call the girl who prints them- a friend of mine- and have it changed if need be), but that's not even the major issue here.
Now, the piece she wants me to put first is totally inappropriate to be put first. It's new music, it is conceptual, it just doesn't provide a good introduction to a recital. So, I'm definitely not comfy doing that.
But then the guilt kicks in. Am I being a bad friend if I tell her to deal with it? I feel like we all tell our best friends that we'd do anything for them, but then when it comes to something that's as trivial in the grand scheme of things as a recital program...I find myself unwilling to consider her stress!
The only thing I'd be willing to do is move one of the shorter pieces to later in the program. That won't buy her any more than 10 minutes. She'd be cutting it EXTREMELY close. And I'm still not thrilled with that arrangement, but I'd be willing to consider it, even though my prof has to give the final ok anyway.
So, what, in your opinions should I do???
Well, it's standard practice to put your chamber work (we're all required to do in depth study in a small mixed-instrumental group...like a string quartet or piano trio, for example) on your recital. Mine is a work for flute, cello and piano, and the pianist is my best friend.
Well, my pianists best friend took a really steady and high-paying gig. That gig has a performance that overlaps with my recital, and she'd probably be 10 or 15 minutes late to her performance. She can't get out of my recital...her performance in it is also graded and counts for a full hour of credit towards her GPA.
So she wants me to change the program order.
Now, the programs have already been ordered (being run tomorrow morning...I can call the girl who prints them- a friend of mine- and have it changed if need be), but that's not even the major issue here.
Now, the piece she wants me to put first is totally inappropriate to be put first. It's new music, it is conceptual, it just doesn't provide a good introduction to a recital. So, I'm definitely not comfy doing that.
But then the guilt kicks in. Am I being a bad friend if I tell her to deal with it? I feel like we all tell our best friends that we'd do anything for them, but then when it comes to something that's as trivial in the grand scheme of things as a recital program...I find myself unwilling to consider her stress!
The only thing I'd be willing to do is move one of the shorter pieces to later in the program. That won't buy her any more than 10 minutes. She'd be cutting it EXTREMELY close. And I'm still not thrilled with that arrangement, but I'd be willing to consider it, even though my prof has to give the final ok anyway.
So, what, in your opinions should I do???