Happy New Year! Today was a very low-key day, after the New Year’s Eve celebrating Heather and I took part in as part of Pink Martini’s festivities at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall last night. The orchestra doesn’t start to get going until next week, so it will still be pretty quiet around the blog
Given that string players are most likely to complain about what they perceive as bad rehearsal technique on the part of a conductor, how about seeing what happens when they try to do it themselves? Not typical of a string quartet rehearsal, but things start to get unwieldy when you’ve got eight players all of
Thanks to Joël Belgique and Inés Voglar for furnishing the photos.
photo: © Charles Noble This year Heather and I will be ringing in the new year with Pink Martini at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, presented by the LA Philharmonic. We’ll be part of the Harvey Rosencranz Orchestra, the extra complement of strings that Pink sometimes hauls out of Portland for big shows.