Archive for May, 2003
Friday, May 30th, 2003
Joe’s Arkansas Travel - Chapter II
All the folks involved in the festival seem really nice. I’ve gotten to meet all the vocal and conductor interns over the last couple of days. One pleasant
surprise (which would not have been a surprise if I had taken the trouble to read the cover of my score) was finding Shanna Norton and [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
Joe’s Arkansas Travels - Chapter I
After a whopping hour and a half at home, I took off again, this time for the Hot Springs Music Festival. Got to Atlanta,
Texas, a bit before 9pm, where I had dinner with Dave Price, his dad and his stepmom, then spent the night there. Burned copies of the DVDs of Mikado for [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Last
Woke up at 5 am for some unknown reason. That would be 11pm Monday real time. Grabbed my PowerBook and started warwalking. Found a bunch of hotspots right by
the hotel, but they must have had a MAC address list, because I couldn’t get an IP. Finally found a place on Southhampton [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Seventh
Lazy morning, since plane not til 11. Uneventful flight to Heathrow, where I parted company with my folks as they continued on to Johannesburg and then
Australia for the Rotary convention. I took the Picadilly line into town, stopping off at Leicester Square to buy a half-priced ticket…had originally planned
to see Michael Richards in [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Sixth
Went to the Augustinerkirche this morning and heard their resident choir and orchestra do the Bruckner Mass in E minor…outstanding. Got recordings of three of
there other services. Went to the Museum Quarter (they converted the former Imperial Stables into a huge museum complex) and went into the Leopold Museum and
saw a exhibition of [...]
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Saturday, May 24th, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Fifth
Got up at 5:50am…voluntarily.It was so I could catch the 7:15 to Budapest. My folks get up early anyway (don’t know where they get it from), and we had a
little breakfast at McDonald’s before I took the tram to Sudbahnhof. Got to Keleti, walked all the way to Ferenciek tere, stopping at all the antique [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Fourth
I love travelling with my parents…the hotels are much nicer.
Breakfast at the Imperial is always special, even without the Imperial Torte.
While getting into the car with Kurt and Erica, noticed the sign for tomorrow’s concert at the Musickverien: Nikolaus Haroncourt conducting, Thomas Hamson
singing. Walked over to the kassa, and we were able to [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Third
Found out in the morning that they have 100BaseT ports in the desk-doh!
The Lanesborough is a wonderful hotel. Fabulous breakfast of toast, tomato juice (it’s ok…tomatos are bad, but I think of this as made from tomato
blood), orange juice, fresh fruit, bacon, poached eggs, and terrific tea.
Flew to Vienna, crashed for a couple of [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the Second
Slept til 9:30 Wed. got cleaned up and checked out, and met Syl by the Gaiety Theater (seats 1100 (which is closer to 800 than 2000…I should have bet), but
seems much more intimate than the Cullen). Had more coffees and more wanderings, trying to remember where the Neptune print shop was. Had [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
Joe’s European Dash - Part the First
Joe Rawley was kind enough to take me to Intergalactic on his lunch hour. Interminable time to check in…over an hour. 45 minutes on the tarmac. Fun. At least
this time, as opposed to the SJD trip, the AC worked…and no “chicken or fish!”
What’s worse than a baby crying on a plane? Two [...]