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Irving
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 Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject: Glare on stage, any solutions? |
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| I am having a hard time dealing with poor lighting where I work. The lights illuminate the stage for the public, and are located in front of us, as well as above us. The light leaves the music in the dark, and the management is unwilling to fix the problem. So, would anybody have any ideas about eyeglass solutions? I am thinking of trying either tinted or polarized lenses. Any ideas? |
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tommy t.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: Glare on stage, any solutions? |
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| Irving wrote: | | I am having a hard time dealing with poor lighting where I work. The lights illuminate the stage for the public, and are located in front of us, as well as above us. The light leaves the music in the dark, and the management is unwilling to fix the problem. So, would anybody have any ideas about eyeglass solutions? I am thinking of trying either tinted or polarized lenses. Any ideas? |
Common problem for anybody that works from a stage -- lights are aimed at your face so the audience can see you.
Use a battery powered stand light to brighten your music -- use two if you have to.
Tinted glasses make the problem worse in most cases. The real problem isn't just that the light is shinning in your eyes. It's mostly that the music is facing away from the light and is not nearly as bright -- tinted glasses will make the music even darker.
Polarized glasses are excellent for reducing glare but if you are getting direct light shinning in your face straight from the lighting units, that's not glare and polarization will not do much, if anything, to help.
I don't know what your organization is. If you have a union, you have power to make reasonable demands that management listens to or you strike. If you are volunteers, notifiy your conductor that you are all going to not volunteer to play in such a space and let him take it up with the space managers.
If you are the only one, or one of only a few, who are bothered by this, propose a change of the seating arangements -- some instruments tend to make you look up and into the lights (trumpet for example) some make it easy to look down and away from lights (oboes for example). Put the trumpets on the side and oboes in the center.
Best of all, do a bit of all these things and you might end up with a musician friendly space without anybody getting mad.
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cheiden
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I have pretty good luck keeping my music stand relatively low and tilted facing upwards so I'm looking more downward versus out at the lights. A nice bright stand light would certainly help too.
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Irving
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| I already have a stand light. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it creates shadows on the music. |
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