Rehearsal for the Choral Society concert. I'm playing celeste on the little (digital) keyboard in the foreground. I told Stan that I was getting a lot of money for very few notes in this piece. "High DPN --- dollars per note," he said. He mentioned that the highest DPN was the cymbal part in the New World Symphony --- only one hit in the entire piece. 
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The comment on the cymbal part in the Dvorak New World reminds me of the time I performed the piece with the University of Michigan Campus Orchestra. I dutifully waited until the third movement, rose and grabbed the crash cymbals when the time came in the movement for the pp cymbal crash. I was so swept away by the loveliness of the lilting theme that the woodwinds play at the moment that the crash is due, that I entirely missed my entrance. I just quietly returned the cymbals to their holder and sat back down, and enjoyed the rest of the third and fourth movements. Although I was not paid for the gig, it would have brought me the highest possible DPN since no notes were played at all!!
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