My flurry of spring gigs is over. In addition to March's Jesus Christ Superstar, I've sung in a concert, played horn in another, and music-directed another (those last two over the last two weekends). They all went really well and, most importantly, they were fun. I'd sorta kinda steered away from performing last year, as …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
A Little More Night Music
I love A Little Night Music. It took this musical theater queen longer to get to know it than it should have, but, in my mid '20's, I saw a very good community theater production of it in Philadelphia. And then, not long after, PBS broadcast the new New York City Opera production. https://youtu.be/2mwRammv30Q?si=lBV5vYZFvcix4-kv This …
Three Years
Not quite yet, it'll be the 20th. But I woke up at 3:45 this morning, and trying to fall back asleep, I wrote this. I can't remember the last time I wrote a poem. Three Years I fetch socks from your dresserMy dresser nowStanding where you laySurrounded by strangersWorking quickly and professionallyTo try to save …
Knoebel Effort
A nice couple of weekends! The day after seeing Barbiere at the Met, it was Easter Sunday. I don't celebrate Easter myself, and it took me a while to realize that other people do (adults, I mean) and take it quite seriously. Like, Charles would give me an Easter card each year. I was delighted, …
Figaro at the Seville Zoo
A week of comic opera, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Quick background for those who don't know: Beaumarchais was a French playwright in the 18th century who wrote a trilogy of plays about wily barber and manservant Figaro. Mozart turned the second of these, The Marriage of Figaro, into a masterpiece of an opera. …
Dichotomy
One of the big lessons I learned from the thing, picked up from grief counseling, is that it's OK to feel more than one emotion at the same time. Grief itself is a snarled ball of sadness, rage, relief, frustration, etc. and that's OK. And I bring this up because 2025 so far has been …
Florida Keys, Day 6: Heading Home
Hookay, vacation almost over. My flight wasn't for a while, I had plenty of time - in fact, if I checked out at checkout time, I'd have more than enough time to tank up the car and get to the airport. I'd vaguely thought about getting up early enough to take a swim - although …
Florida Keys, Day 5: Key West
My full day in Key West was exhausting, dahlings (I did over 20,000 steps), but great fun. I got up, did the morning stuff, had breakfast, and headed out. I was in fact slathered in sunscreen, and wished I'd had a real wide-brimmed sunhat rather than just a baseball cap - it was very bright …
Florida Keys, Day 4: Marathon to Key West
My second half of the Keys was maybe a bit less successful than the previous day, but as I have to tell myself sometimes, no one's grading me. The problems, which were not major ones, were that it was very bright and hot and sunny, and also, although I thought I'd checked, a lot of …
Florida Keys, Day 3: Key Largo to Marathon
Finally, a chance to use my carefully-curated map and list of stops in order! (No, I didn't go to that stop out in the water, sillies. That's the "Christ of the Deep", part of the Pennekamp park, which I would have seen if my glass-bottom boat tour hadn't been cancelled.) Got up, cleaned up, breakfast, …
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