This weekend I am playing John Adams’s Harmonielehre with the Milwaukee Symphony. As usual, the orchestra sounds magnificent, conductor Edo de Waart is utterly inspiring, and I am pushing myselfContinue readingUpcoming Concert
Oboe Update
So I had this oboe. I bought it because it called to me through the internet. I liked it, then I liked it a lot, then I liked it less. Continue readingOboe Update
Upcoming Concert
This weekend in South Bend we finally open our official season with James Beckel’s Toccata for Orchestra, the Korngold Violin Concerto, and Brahms Symphony No. 1. And I feel prettyContinue readingUpcoming Concert
It Feels Sooo Good.
We moved over the weekend. And we’d been working on this move – around all of our normal work and teaching and baby-wrangling – for a good month beforehand. SoContinue readingIt Feels Sooo Good.
Upcoming Concert
I am playing with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic this week, and we are doing Mahler’s 4th Symphony. I have never played this piece before, and I am having a fantasticContinue readingUpcoming Concert
Easy is Hard
The memorization I’m working on now is one of the hardest things I have done. I am about a month and a half out from performing Qigang Chen’s Extase withContinue readingEasy is Hard