I want to warn everyone that if they haven't signed up for SKs classes, you'd better hurry. REALLY!!! I don't know how the violin classes are filling up , but the cello classes have past the bursting point and they're trying to get a 4th teacher. Meanwhile, even my own little flophouse is full some weeks, and I had to turn away a favorite guest (Alicia) for one week. BOOOOOO ! ! !
SKs is getting kinda busy and frantic, far moreso than 10 years ago, which suits some people, but not me. My "mission" there seems to be to get people to chill out, when they end up getting all panicky and bent out of shape from overactivity and just plain Trying Too Hard (which is always counterproductive).
Is anyone going to a different music "camp" also, this summer? I'd like to know what other people have experienced, since there's no earthly reason I couldn't boogie off to some exotic place for a week of viola-crimes, leaving my house in the care of someone else.
Today is the big Valentine's Day Concert w/ the Willimantic CT Orchestra. (MY orchestra!)
Probably every community orchestra in the world is giving a Valentine's concert today. We're doing Tschaikovsky "Sleeping Beauty" (next to impossible) and a set of really gooooooey 1930s love songs, accompanying an excellent small choir. These are the sort of songs that evoke vamps in fishnet, draped over white grand pianos, long cigarette holders and all the gin you can soak in. Mmmmmmmm!!!!! (I like these pieces.)
Note somewhere here for Shirley & Hummel.
jb