Rehearsal Scheduling Drama: Violist Claims She 'Definitely' Checked the Calendar

A scheduling dispute between violist Stephanie Clef and the Westfield Philharmonic's orchestra manager has entered its second week after Clef arrived on Wednesday for a rehearsal that took place on Tuesday, and maintains that the error was not hers. 'I checked the calendar,' Clef said. 'I looked at the calendar. The calendar said Tuesday. I came on the day I believed to be Tuesday. The fact that it was Wednesday is a problem with the day, not with me.' Orchestra manager Kevin Schedule confirmed that the rehearsal was clearly listed on the shared Google Calendar as Tuesday at 7 PM, and that Clef was the only member of the 87-person ensemble who attended on the wrong day. 'She arrived at 6:45 PM on Wednesday and sat in her chair in an empty hall,' Schedule said. 'The stage manager found her warming up at 7:10, at which point she asked where everyone was. He told her the rehearsal was yesterday. She said she disagreed.' Clef's position is that the orchestra's digital calendar is 'unreliable and inconsistent with the physical passage of time as she experiences it.' She has requested that all future rehearsal dates be communicated by telephone call, printed letter, and verbal confirmation from at least two members of the management team. Schedule has declined this request on the grounds that it would effectively require him to 'run a personal notification service for one person who does not know what day it is.' The dispute has been escalated to the orchestra's board, where it will be discussed alongside more pressing matters such as the annual budget and the leaking roof over the brass section. Clef has attended all subsequent rehearsals on the correct day, which she attributes to 'improved calendar design' rather than any personal adjustment.