We have arrived in albuquerque where we will stay for 11 hours. My bass has caused minimal problems on this leg, not fitting on the first flight from Powell River-Vancouver and arriving in Vancouver three hours later than us. We arrived in Albuquerque to find our bags are comming in an hour later. As we sit here and watch the rest of our movie, I thought it would be a good time to give some transition thoughts.
The last concert went great, we played Mahler 4th (which Mel played the final English Horn solo for closing the entire symphony beatifully!) and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (Hard Rock!!!!!) SOAP was a challenging experience for both of us and I feel like I have learned so much and it was good to study with Mark Morton again. He is a great player, teacher, and a whole lot of fun.
We now start the hot part of our summer. The director of SOAP told me he heard that it is so hot in Rome that they had to turn off all of the fountains. Joaquin has warned me that spain is hot too. We will fly tomorrow to Rome, meet Marcio at the airport, go in a taxi to the Hotel Dehon (right behind the Vatican) and spend the day there. On tuesday we fly to Santander, Spain, where we take a train to Gijon. I will meet Andrey Feygin there and take an audition. He is the Bass professor at the conservatory there. Then we will take a train to Madrid, hang there for a day. Then to Granada for a few days with Joaquin, and finally to Valencia where mel will meet Juan Ferriol, the oboe professor. All of our nights, except for Granada, will be spent on the trains. So we may smell a little. but no hostels needed! Then we fly back to Rome to meet the group and start our second festival of the summer.
A note on DAD: he is doing fine. Josh and Lana have both visited for a week each and Mom is on her way for a week as well. He has been able to work a few hours at a time and is in high spirits! As for my dog, he is out of jail and loves his monkey.
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haha, love that picture- they're like "ee what re we supposed to do with this ting? ooo"
Mom leaves for home in Santa Fe today. She has taught me that there is culinary life after bypass and that the tomatoes will grow after the flowers are gone.
Family is so important. The first thing I saw waking up after surgery was Robin and Mom at the foot of my bed. Nobody can know how much that means to me.
Break a leg or two, you guys. You make me very proud.
Dad
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