March 23, 2007
Trip to Boston
My daughter's high school orchestra played for the Massachusetts Music Educators' Association All-State Conference this afternoon, and I journeyed east to enjoy the show. I'll have video highlights on YouTube soon. I stopped in Cambridge earlier to join professor of international politics and Red Sox fanDaniel Drezner for lunch. Among other things, we talked about how Matsuzaka and the WBC help international relations and Papelbon moving back to the closer role.
The Longmeadow High School orchestra played Verdi and Shubert wonderfully. It's nice to hear them in a room with good acoustics, since their high school auditorium is less than adequate.
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I assume they played a overture from a Verdi Opera. Which one was it? And what about the Schubert?
Weird, I was in the Longmeadow jazz band when we played the MMEA conference in about 1994. We had a blast out there just getting to wander around and hear different groups play from around the state.
But from the perspective of a band/orchestra member, I didn't mind the LHS auditorium at all. Except the risers on stage were easy to trip over.
They played the Overture to La Forza del Destino and the first movement of Shurbert's Unfinished Symphony.
