Just got off the phone with Laura Rosenberg (executive director, arts administration & chorus director – Hot Springs Music
Festival), and the upshot is if they like my sound, then I’ll be doing the role of Speaker and understudying Papageno in their new English version of Magic
Flute the first two weeks of June. Sending them a copy of “Eilt, eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen” as soon as I get it from Dr. Lynn on Tuesday. Now I just hope
Cliff’ll let me out for the first two weeks.
Author: Joe White
Went over to Sam and Kristen Handley’s after rehearsal for port, cigarillos, caffeine-free Diet Dr Pepper, milk, homemade cake and cookies, and fun talk. Ryan Schuette lamented the fact that he isn’t in Google at all, and asked if I would mention him on my blog. Here
you go, Ryan. Now I need to check out doing Papageno for the Hot Springs Music Festival.
Apparently Brown College is going to attempt a musical in the spring (the first in about six years). Jonathan Ichikawa and Lauren Holmes both pooh-poohed the
notion, saying it’ll never happen. I have faith in the folks over there, and put my money where my mouth is: $1 each was bet; time will tell.
My folks are came to town to see La Traviata, and said it was wonderful, especially
Renee Fleming. I guess I better go see it, which means Friday or Sunday, since those are the last shows. It also means that they are sleeping in my bed, and
since Joe Rawley is in my guest room until he gets married in December, I get the sleeper sofa. On the plus side, I did have a wonderful meal at The Palm with them and my brother tonight. Mmmm, steak.
While driving in Alabama this weekend, I saw lots of billboards and heard many radio spots touting the 300th anniversary of the founding of Mobile by the French. I may be mistaken, but with the popular perception of France in this country at the moment, especially in the patriotic South, is
that really a wise marketing decision?