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As I promised, a slideshow of photos from last Saturday’s recital with Steven Blier. All photos by Andi Kling

Un giorno di regno Rehearsal Report for Wednesday, June 4, 2008: Due to inclement weather, the afternoon rehearsal block started 17 minutes later than scheduled. Also, we lost power at approximately 2:50pm, were briefly evacuated to the Lecture Hall during a tornado warning, and then continued on generator power for the duration of the rehearsal.

A magical Saturday evening at The Barns, with 5 of our singers joining Steven Blier onstage. 2008 is the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, and it’s also William Bolcom’s 70th birthday year. Steve has a deep connection to and history with both of these men and their music, and he was characteristically generous in

Yesterday marked the return of a WTOC phenomenon from last summer: A Little Lunch Music. More than a year ago, SSW suggested that we use the common area of our building for a regular lunchtime concert, giving the rest of the Wolf Trap Foundation a chance to see and hear what the opera company is

…. things might have turned out differently.” So said a member of our music staff after one of the first King for a Day rehearsals. And so have remarked a few other random folks during the course of this last week. Meaning, first and foremost, that we are lucky to have a fabulous group of

I am a Marquise. Although you might think that being of noble birth gives me an advantage in life, I can assure you that I’ve had quite enough of it. My cousin and I are cooped up here in this stuffy old house in Paris when all of life is swirling around outside. For heaven’s

My early life as a musician was tyrannized by details. I have a hard time letting go of the small stuff, and I wasted lots of hours (years?) obsessing about the wrong things in my music-making. Not because caring about the details is wrong, but because my fixation on them robbed me of the opportunity

As we enter the most public portion of our annual cycle, I refer you to a post of a few months ago on Arts Addict: Losing My Anonymity. Jason is a working orchestral musician with a highly successful blog, and he discusses the challenges of balancing transparency with discretion. I’ve been blogging for over 3

I’ve been stalled, trying to distill a post inspired by Earth Day. So many fragments of ideas have been floating in and out of my mind, and I thought that if I just gave it a few more days, a coherent whole would emerge. Well, it hasn’t, but that never stopped me from writing before.

It’s just me and my workstation. And it could be far worse. The last several weeks have been far more fragmented than I was equipped to handle. My hopeless addictions to multi-tasking and over-commitment may be unbreakable. And so I’m surprised when I’m capable of even brief episode of single-minded focus. The woodwind and brass