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:
Boss and I onstage at the Montreux Jazz Festival
I places like this:
Piazza San Marco, Venezia. So many people showed up that it started sinking.
Traveling like this:
Oh, do I miss that private jet...
Or sometimes like this:
The running tour joke was to take pictures of people while they were sleeping on transportation. Which was often; it was a nutty schedule...
(Yes, it was pretty exhausting. I slept on the private plane. A lot.)
The Sting tour was an amazing experience, although the schedule was pretty crazy – 34 shows in 59 days, in the middle of which I flew to San Francisco for 5 days for concerts with the San Francisco Symphony. Please forgive the lack of blog presence for the past several months; it’s truly been an incredibly busy time, and I needed a couple of weeks afterwards to decompress!
Now that the season is about to roll out here in Minnesota I’ll be updating far more frequently; we have a fantastic season with Inside the Classics, as well as some cool new projects with the Minnesota Orchestra. Once I get my blogging mojo back I’ll be talking about all of that, as well as the usual thoughts on orchestras, musicians and the music industry in general.
In the meantime…Happy Labor Day!
Sounds like an amazing time. Thanks so much for sharing!
You conducted my city’s orchestra last year in September and they actually had your return to the States as a story on their Facebook feed. Our brush with greatness…
I was in Venice, even if among those people with high water. You were amazing, I’ve hit!
Thank you for a wonderful Season Sampler last night. You are so talented! My husband (who often falls asleep at concerts) stayed awake during the whole evening and we both enjoyed it a lot. My favorite was La Vie en rose with Charmin Michelle singing. And my husbands was of course the Carpenters. Although he used to be the engineer for MPR and Garrison, he does know how to handle the sound systems pretty well, he thought the vocals were too loud and wanted to hear more of the orchestra music (during the Carpenter’s only). I agreed with him, but we did notice someone must have corrected it as the song played along. Thanks again and I am glad you are part of the MN Orchestra!