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Quick Takes: How about thinking INSIDE the box? and request time!
A completely overused statement “thinking outside the box” needs to be reworked and soon. I used to love using it, but now I feel it is a cop out statement as if to say we are going to try something new and different and if it doesn’t work, well at least we tried! Also my [...]
A Tale of Two Cities…
Two interesting situations are developing that on the surface may not seem connected but are actually deeply related. For better or for worse.
I’m Baaaack….coming up!
After a week of decompression (and a quick trip to Tulsa) following my 6 week Lake Placid stint, Wednesday begins my new Audience Connections class with podcasts and audio highlights starting next week. An interesting article about the role of the Assistant Conductor came out recently, I have a lot to say about that, plus [...]
The Red Hour
The Red Hour has struck, and the 2010 Edinburgh International Arts Festival is open!!! Time to lick my wounds.
Are You One With Landru?
Funny how life sometimes imitates Star Trek.
Out On The Fringe
Once in a lifetime everyone should have the opportunity to do something that very, very few other people can claim to have done. It’s my turn.
Things that move….
I’m in the midst of the busiest schedule of my life in Lake Placid and in Syracuse, with 3 (this week 5) concerts a week till mid August, but that doesn’t mean there is no time to be moved….just not much time to write about it! Yesterday something struck me and a friend shared with [...]
Is CPR Necessary For A Revival?
When last we saw our intrepid Porgy folk we were sneaking up on the Gale, the general dress rehearsal. Or, truth be told, perhaps the Gale was sneaking up on us. This is where the old expression “canary in a coal mine” starts to seem prophetic.
What The Hell Were They Thinking?
It’s Bastille Day. We have our General Dress rehearsal tonight for Porgy. Tomorrow I travel to Valence to see the 11th stage of the Tour de France. With all that going on why, you may ask, is my mind a thousand miles away?
We are for Profit…aren’t we?…..
I am up here in Lake Placid for 6 weeks of concerts in the glorious Adirondacks with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta. Something is really bothering me, even though I am here in paradise. The words not-for-profit have such a negative connotation. I know it’s a widely used categorical description but it’s not accurate in the [...]
Porgy Does Lyon….
Pre-Gale. Sitzprobe. Piano Filage. If I didn’t know any better I’d suspect that we were putting together a very expensive porno flick.
The Aix Man Cometh…….
Normally when I’m is hired to do concerts with, say, the Lower Podunk Symphony Orchestra, I start looking on Expedia for cheap tickets to Lower Podunk. After all, one expects to rehearse said orchestra where said orchestra resides. Which begs the question – why, then, if I’m doing an opera with the Opera Lyon company [...]
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