We've had a super difficult week, but one of the high points was Michelle's stint as a horn ringer at the Rose City International Conductor's Workshop ( Read more... )

I know that some of you live in the greater Minneapolis area. Those of you who miss THIS CONCERT are going to regret it. Jorja's playing is electric, and the Elgar is an underplayed, spectacularly intimate masterpiece. Get in by any means possible.

I'm playing Sheherazade next Wednesday with a local orchestra in the college town down the highway. They're doing it tomorrow night with an OSO bassoonist in Baker City and again, with me, next week in their home town. The band is locals and college students ( Read more... )

We had a busy week ( Read more... )

Michelle apparently just stole my thunder with the Miranda waddling. So, she's almost there. Next week she'll be running and we'll be hitting our heads saying "I wish she'd stay in one god damned place ( Read more... )

M. and I have just had about the roughest two weeks or so that I can think of. I mean, we moved from one house to another, experienced an enormous building fire and loss of M.'s employer's premises, and had my parents and grandmother over for five days. It was absolutely crazy ( Read more... )

I went down to the office to take a couple of extra pictures today.
This is the whole building:

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Of all of my bad habits, M. really doesn't like the fact that my cell phone is often on with an off ringer. It's mainly a safety precaution because I usually forget to take it out of my pocket when I run over to court. If it rings, I'm in contempt. So, I turn off the ringer ( Read more... )

Last night, our orchestra did its Elgar concert with a guest conductor, a friend of our regular conductor’s out of England. As often as I’ve heard or read about the persons depicted in the Enigma Variations, they have never been as real to me as they became described by the GC ( Read more... )

Michelle and I went down to Portland this weekend. When we got there, her parents told us about thisWe're doing Enigma this coming Saturday, and, as usual, we have a bunch of freelancers coming in from the valley. I've never played Enigma before, and I've never before played the Nimrod variation live. Michelle and I talked a little about it, but ( Read more... )