Just to update the world news that nobody asked for LOL...
It is June 19 today, so I went to another rehearsal. I brought my expensive bow.
The pianist did practice this time, so that was an improvement. However, I think she still needs a lot of work because she sometimes did not follow the score. She improvised. I mean, I have never seen a pianist improvise in classical music like this. Maybe in jazz, sure, but certainly not in classical music with standard repertoire, especially when there is no cadenza section written there.
When she messed up, she just made up her own chords. She thinks she is Mozart, but Mozart did not do strange chords and never BS his way through. At that point, I was not sure whether we were still playing classical music.
What should I do about this? This is my first time dealing with this kind of pianist. I am not very optimistic about the June 27 performance, but I guess there is not much I can do now except pray and hope for the best.
