After being a big G&S fan throughout college and grad school, I didn't get to do much in Philadelphia. I auditioned for Savoy Company's Iolanthe once (didn't get it) and then Rose Valley's Ruddigore ('we can't offer you a role, but we loved your audition'). And then moving to New York, I was doing mostly …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Baltimore
Because I grew up in DC, went to college in Williamsburg (VA), grad school in Baltimore, and then spent my 20's in Philadelphia, the farther south I go the more (and younger) personal history I run into. I spent less than two years in Baltimore, but they were so transformative that I came out a …
Audience
Still way behind in blogging. I have a plan to get caught up, though, and much to discuss, once I get a window of time and energy. I have been to a bunch of performances lately. Mostly Gilbert & Sullivan stuff, not all. Sometimes the same show more than once. Since most of them were …
The Anxious Month of May
Whoa, I'm behind on blogging. Again, I realize that most of my blog is providing material for an Eric Peterson museum that will never exist, but it is nice to go back and see what I was up to five years ago or whatever. But I was surprised as we crossed the border into May, …
Chisago? Schmisago?
Behind on blogging, oh well, I'll do a bit of catchup at the end. Two weekends ago I took an extended weekend to go visit my niece and her family in Minnesota - flew in on Thursday, left on Monday. It happened to be Easter weekend, but was really timed to coincide with other niece's …
In Lazy Languor Motionless
I'm currently spending a nice long weekend up at my niece's in Minnesota. She and her family moved farther away from the Twin Cities a couple of years ago - they're in Chisago City. Or Scandia. Or something, it's unclear. Way way out. But here, I get to be Uncle Eric, not lifting a finger …
Scattershot
Still in 'normal normal normal' mode, although that's about to change. April and May are quite booked with stuff. I did have my first Utopia, Ltd. (with Utopia Opera) orchestral rehearsal yesterday. This is going to be fun! Not that the horn part is anything to write home about, or even that the show is …
Normal normal normal
Currently I'm in an unusual block of time where I really don't have anything scheduled, I can just live my life and do my things and get stuff done. IT WON'T LAST, so I'm enjoying it for what it is. Last weekend, I spent Saturday just doing laundry and stuff, but had so much time …
Hostess with the Mostess
Our apartment was big for two people, and it's really big for one. But it's just the right size when we have guests. Charles was the consummate host, of course, and I learned a ton from him over our lives together. Of course, a big part of his hosting was preparing food, which I'm still …
On the Spectrum
A week! Some things got done! Others, not so much! I'd signed up with Blink Fitness, which is the only gym with a local branch not far away, at the beginning of the year, to continue my PT exercises. That's been working out OK - that branch is always busy, but if I go early …
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