So, now it's Christmas Eve (Wednesday). I was hosting dinner. One of our guests had bowed out, so it was just the basic 4 of us - Dad, Susan, Tessa and me. Who'd lived through that dreaded Christmas of 2022 where I was hosting for the first time and was a jittery mess, and still …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Christmas 2025, part 1
First of all, Happy New Year! 2026 is a year of possibilities, and I don't have a Major Project hanging over my head this year, so that's cool. More on that later, there will be a 2025 wrapup and perhaps a Vision Statement for the new year. The Christmas season really went very nicely. I …
2025 Wrapup
(this is the first writing project of a mid-January 3-day weekend where I'm carving out serious writing time) Let's just take it as given that 2025 in general was not good for our country. We voted in (again!) possibly the worst person in the world as our new president, and he and his gang of …
I never thought it was such a bad little tree…
Especially since I didn't get Christmas last year (Dad and I were traveling), I started prepping for Xmas as soon as I got back from Thanksgiving. Last weekend, I brought the Xmas boxes up and have spent the week assembling the big tree, while playing movies I don't have to see to watch - Scrooge, …
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In Rochester, Roscoe and Rhinebeck
... hurricanes hardly ever happen. So, I just got back from my Thanksgiving road trip, very successful. As I said earlier, I'd been dealing with a miserable sinus thing for a couple of weeks. (Tentative diagnosis: leaf mold allergy) Post-nasal drip, irritated throat, coughing, Mucinex, cough syrup, the whole bit. I had a colonoscopy scheduled …
Petty petty petty petty
Those of you who know March of the Falsettos can sing along in your head. Lots to blog about, this may be scattershot and might be more than one post. I've been low-level sick for about a week. Last Tuesday (a holiday), Susan and I went outlet-mall shopping out on Long Island. Fun, but it …
When October Goes (again)
Busy busy with all good things. The week after the Planets concert, I didn't have QUO rehearsal, but I did have a rehearsal up in Connecticut for a church gig. My college roommate Vance's husband Craig is the Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich, one Metro North stop south of …
Exploring Uranus
Heh-heh-heh. Still twelve on the inside. Yeah, we had our first big Queer Urban Orchestra concert of the year. The season's theme is "A Place for Us" and the concert was titled Queer Cosmos. The big featured piece was Holst's The Planets, which I'd never played in its entirety. (I'd conducted and played "Jupiter" - …
Mikado
So, that was a fun weekend! A little background. My British G&S colleague Rachel founded and runs a scrappy little theater company in the UK called Forbear!. They do really interesting small-scale versions of the G&S operas and tour them all over the UK. And then my American G&S colleague Will runs a scrappy little …
Birthday Week
Celebratory shenanigans, homeowner tomfoolery and a fair amount of French horn. Yeah, I'm 61 now. My main reaction was "oh, I guess I really am in my 60's". I'm a firm believer in the 'the older you are, the more days your birthday takes up". Birthday was Thursday, but I started on Tuesday. Since my …
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