That seems to be the new term for 'designed in the Scandinavian style', like furniture and so on. Makes me twitch. But I, for the moment, am back in my father's father's homeland. After some last minute score prep kerfuffle - Act 2 printed pages never arrived from Staples, and I had to print them …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
The Swamp before the Storm
Still hot. Still muggy. However, I see the basic temperature range when I'm in Europe is like 50's low, 70's high. That will make packing easier. I know (intellectually) that I don't have to pack for every likely scenario - however, I also know that I'm big enough that finding me clothes over there might …
Strike That. Reverse It.
So I leave for Europe in less than two weeks, and I think I'm on track. I do have a list a mile long of things to think about, but they are getting picked off one by one. I worry about packing, although I've gotten pretty good at it - I don't pack light, and …
Oh, yeah, summer
We've had cool summers before, and it hasn't really gotten that hot yet - but once we crossed that summer-line, it's been muggy as fuck. I put it off for a while, but yesterday I installed the two portable air conditioners. It's pretty easy, although I should probably get some more foam to plug up …
But enough about me
It's Pride Sunday here in NYC (we are big enough to have several Prides, but today is the big one in Manhattan). I was looking forward to actually going, but I still look a fright from my fall last week. I'm not in pain at all, unless you for some reason decide to squeeze the …
Happy Pride Month!
This was my view when I drafted this: Port Jefferson I’d forgotten I had Juneteenth off, so booked a quick Sunday overnight trip to Port Jefferson, on the Long Island sound - and I just got home. More on that later. So.. May was a whirlwind, June less so, but a lot to ketchup on. …
A year
Christamighty, I'm behind, and this is very obviously the next post to write, and I just ... well, I don't have a plan. Let's see what happens. May 20th was the anniversary of Charles's death. It was a Saturday, so I'd planned a gathering for Sunday. I really wanted it to be Charles's old crew, …
Roughdigore
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 …
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 …
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