N.F.L. officials could not move practices inside the Georgia Dome earlier this week because of rehearsals for the halftime show and other events.
Clients often try to talk themselves out of rehearsal, because they're pressed for time, because they don't like the feeling of rehearsal (you're not in control yet), or because they argue that rehearsal will make them stale.
(Note that even if some rehearsal remained undetected, this would be expected to act towards weakening the presumed memory enhancing effect of sleep, because the probability of rehearsal is higher during the wake condition).
The American Music Awards performance went off without a hitch, though, truth be told, it wasn't really because of the hours of rehearsal.
Perhaps because of a lack of rehearsal time caused by her illness, the accompanying trio — Eric Stern on piano, John Beal on bass and Jack Cavari on guitar — played with a hesitancy that suggested three musicians carefully feeling their way along behind the singer.
Even though Moyer is known to most audiences as vampire Bill on HBO's "True Blood," he told Entertainment Weekly that he wasn't scared away by a live musical because of the length of rehearsal time.
Orchestras usually have scant time to learn new pieces; many famous works went awry at their premieres because of inadequate rehearsal, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
And although Ballet Theater pays no licensing fees to the Tudor trust, his ballets are expensive to maintain because of the rehearsal time and coaching required to mount them.
But because of limited rehearsal time, the Philharmonic instead offered Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, which Mr. Dutoit and Mr. Lugansky performed last month with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, having also presented it in recent seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The day of the show I received a very kind call that he couldn't come because of a rehearsal, but he generously invited me over to play some songs during the day.
In 1994 adored soprano Kathleen Battle was storming out of rehearsals because she claimed people were looking at her mouth while she sang.
