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 Dave,
and he’s gonna check them out…if they are ok, I’ll start cranking them out for everybody else.
Left them the next morning, and got into Hot Springs about noon. Got settled in my room (including ethernet…woohoo!), then went to rehearsal. Turns out I’m
also singing the role of one of the guards, doubling my music (two songs…woohoo! 😉 ). Had dinner with one of the Paminas, Sarah, and one of the conducting
interns, Steven. Got the bike out and biked through some of the hills…only a twelve mile circuit, but took the better part of an hour. A bit steeper than Mt.
Edloe. 😉