That was my first year in the symphony ... what an introduction, eh? I was at SJSU (a sophomore) and I'd hike from the school to the CPA to rehearse. What an adventure those days were!
I'll never forget the Cage concert. Scary (for me anyway) to hear all the boos. (Cage appeared to be enjoying every minute of it.)
I also far-too-poorly (more like a dream) remember Martha Graham sitting on stage, looking like a queen (to me anyway), speaking to the audience at the Copland concert.
Gee ... now more memories come flooding back. Some not terribly great. I guess I should blog about them sometime! (Chavez not being terribly kind to yours truly during Three Cornered Hat, Copland only liking my syncopation when I included a shoulder move with the rhythm ....)
Did we do Harrison's Elegiac Symphony that year? UCSC is doing it and I was trying to remember if we did it then. Hmm. But maybe it hadn't been composed yet. I'll have to look that one up.
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That was my first year in the symphony ... what an introduction, eh? I was at SJSU (a sophomore) and I'd hike from the school to the CPA to rehearse. What an adventure those days were!
I'll never forget the Cage concert. Scary (for me anyway) to hear all the boos. (Cage appeared to be enjoying every minute of it.)
I also far-too-poorly (more like a dream) remember Martha Graham sitting on stage, looking like a queen (to me anyway), speaking to the audience at the Copland concert.
Gee ... now more memories come flooding back. Some not terribly great. I guess I should blog about them sometime! (Chavez not being terribly kind to yours truly during Three Cornered Hat, Copland only liking my syncopation when I included a shoulder move with the rhythm ....)
Did we do Harrison's Elegiac Symphony that year? UCSC is doing it and I was trying to remember if we did it then. Hmm. But maybe it hadn't been composed yet. I'll have to look that one up.