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 …
Mid September
Title's not more descriptive because I've been just chugging through 'normal life', and that's wonderful. So nice not to have a huge project hanging over my head. Work (which is fine), life maintenance (which is fine), orchestral rehearsals (which are fun!), lining up fall holiday plans. I'm tackling little projects which have been sitting on …
Happy Anniversary
We got married on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, 2014. This year, the anniversary was also on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Our eleventh, and fourth without him. That's right, our marriage didn't even make it to our eighth anniversary, and I'm still furious about that. Last year, since it was the 10th, …
Summer Wrap-Up
Yeah, so I've been home for two weeks. That first week was about the Bear Necessities, such as buying groceries and getting a haircut and a mani-pedi, and combing through a thousand emails and paying bills and so on. I knew this past week would be busier - I had houseguests coming in on Wednesday. …
Oh, by the way…
If you're not seeing the links I'm posting on FB or Bluesky, I am in fact doing day-by-day posts of my UK trip, after the fact. But they're back-dated, so they won't display at the top here. Just go to the beginning of August, you'll see them.
Welcome Home
Yeah, so I was traveling for four out of the last five weeks. Happy to be home, so happy. I guess I should do something about the completely empty fridge soon. Lunch yesterday was giving the new wings place across the street a try. Verdict - I'm about 40 years too old to be eating …
Pinazoo, Day 15 (Saturday): Over the Bright Blue Sea
My Manchester/JFK flight was 2:30, so working backward, it made sense to catch the 10:00 199 bus, and I had to be out of the cottage by then anyway. I'd sent a message to host Tiffany explaining to her what I was going to do as cleanup, and also apologizing that I'd broken the adorable …
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