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Day 2 Wednesday (4/7/99) Awoke today at 6:00. Worked on this journal for awhile, then went for a walk around the neighborhood around 8:00. There are a lot of nice houses, some of them embassies for different countries. I took a few pictures of the streets, etc. After I returned I took a nap that turned into a long sleep. Rich woke Don and I up about 5 minutes to 2:00. We had both overslept. David was picking us up at 2:00 and showed up right on time so I didn’t have time to shower. A hat day. Wore my Snoopy golf shirt, Oregon Coast fleece, and my Colorado Rockies hat. Talk about an American outfit! Szidi arrived on a bus just as we were about to leave, telling us the story that her CD player and CD’s had been stolen by some people that her ex-boyfriend had invited over from a pub. Not a good start to her day. We all piled into David’s car and drove to the music house where lunch awaited us, salads with chicken and veggies, very tasty. We ate out on the patio. The orchestra was outside having beer and champagne. Antal, the conductor, phoned in at 2:45 saying his car had broken down and was going to be a little late. The musicians retired again to the patio outside and smoked and chatted. Don had corrected one of the click tracks, so he gave that to Istvan. We would have to re-record that cue today. Antal arrived at 3:15 apologizing, and we started in at about 3:30 with the cue with the new clicktrack. |
After
that we started on Duchess Lament, a slow, longer, and very important cue in the movie. It
took them awhile to get it perfect, and we made a few orchestration changes. Then we went
on to another difficult cue, The Fire. With one run through it was time for the orchestra
to take a break. On the break Istvan invited us to David’s name day celebration after
the session on Friday.
The Mac that Istvan is recording on crashed during
one of the run-thru’s of The Fire. It was time for another break about this time, so
we took one and he ran a defrag program to alleviate the problem. The orchestra finished
their break, the defrag program was running, so they rehearsed several of the upcoming
cues. We went into the rehearsal room (Nagy Provoderium) and watched and took pictures
while they ran through a few cues. It was great to be able to relax and interact with the
orchestra. The defrag completed it’s task and we finished recording The Fire, which
sounded great, and two of the next cues. Our session only
ran 2 1/2 hours today. We will make up the half hour that Antal was late on Friday. We
have used half of the allotted time that we booked and are about half way done with the
music. We do have some tough cues coming up, and all of the pieces that contain choir will
be recorded on Friday using an A440 tuning. So hopefully we will get everything recorded
in
time. David is confident that we will and Antal is conscientious of the fact that we need
to keep things rolling along at an accelerated pace.
After the session, on the way to dinner, we stopped
at David’s mom’s place and he dropped off his personal items that he did not
want to leave in the car while we ate. His mom came down to the street and greeted us. We
found out that she is a famous actress in Hungary. She has been in plays and a few movies.
She is also a poet and he asked her for some translated poems. Szidi came down with a
folder of poems that I must read. We had dinner at an Irish pub located in a big boat on
the Danube. I had beef filet with Irish Whiskey sauce, potatoes au gratin, and beer. It
was excellent. We spoke to David about his business and how his previous venture, music
schools in several districts in Yugoslavia, had
failed do to local jealousy of his success in running his schools. We also spoke about his
new venture and exchanged ideas about how he could improve, what he was doing right, what
was important to us, and our general impressions of the company. It was good (jo) for all.
After dinner we dropped Szidi off a few blocks from her apartment and let David go home to
his wife. He lives about 40 miles away, out in the country. He basically works out of his
car using all sorts of mobile devices. It’s humorous.
