I’m about to begin blogging more regularly as we head toward the beginning of the Inside the Classics season, and toward the MicroCommission premiere. I have a lot to tell you all about the piece and how it’s developing, and … Continue reading →
Here in Minneapolis, we started up rehearsals for the first classical concerts of our 2011-12 season today, and in what’s become an annual tradition, the morning began with our wonderful personnel manager, Julie Haight, coming to the front of the … Continue reading →
Well, this is just awesome. Over the three years since Jorja Fleezanis announced that she’d be leaving the orchestra at the end of the 2008-09 season, I don’t think I’ve fielded a single question more often than “When are you … Continue reading →
Sarah and I are in the early stages of scripting our first Inside the Classics show of the season, which goes up in early November and features Shostakovich’s always crowd-pleasing 5th symphony. And from a narrative perspective, this should be … Continue reading →
Okay, one more summer camp story and then I’ll stop, I promise. This one isn’t actually about the kids I taught this August, and it’s a story I hadn’t thought about in years, until some old photos started popping up … Continue reading →
Since I just wrote a post about teaching, which isn’t actually something I spend a lot of time doing, I thought I’d follow up by writing about an aspect of teaching that I’ve struggled with from time to time, and … Continue reading →
Yes, it’s been ages since I’ve posted and for that I apologize. For those of you who don’t know, I spent most of my summer doing this: I places like this: Traveling like this: Or sometimes like this: (Yes, it … Continue reading →
I’ve mentioned before that youth orchestras are nearly always short of violists. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and insert the viola joke of your choice here, but the truth is that string players tend to start studying their instruments at a … Continue reading →
