Sunday's LCCB concert went pretty well. All Christmas music. oy. I made one big mistake -- wasn't paying enough attention at the end of Sleigh Ride, and he puts a longer pause between the horse and the whipcrack than any other band I've played with, and I didn't wait long enough. I've played SR _so_ _many_ times, and I just got onto autopilot and ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I went to usher (and hear) the first half of Hugo Wolf's Morike-Lieder. German art-songs. In German, natch. With sur-titled translations on the screen at Mendelssohn Theater. Quite well done, and good music. (the second half was performed a couple of days later and the usher crew was full for that performance, as were the ( Read more... )