Headed down to LA …
…for a reprise of last year’s Sgt. Pepper concert. Lots of fun stories and pictures to follow on this blog, I’m sure. And my readership goes way up thanks to the Cheap Trick fans. Yesterday, I dropped by SF Opera for a reading of The Bonesetter’s Daughter. I’ll be assistant conductor of that show in August, and the score looks very colorful and fun. The composer, Stewart Wallace, and the conductor, Steven Sloane are cool, and I’m looking forward to the teamwork involved in opera … it’s a lot different than traveling from place to place by yourself to conduct. Steven Sloane went to my rival high school, Palisades High (aka PALI aka the Dolphins). We were laughing about that. Oddly enough, across the street at the Symphony, David Robertson is conducting. He went to my high school (Santa Monica High, aka SAMOHI, aka the Vikings) as well. It’s weird that three conductors from rival high schools are in one place. It’s happened before though — Michael Tilson Thomas used to face off with Leonard Slatkin back in the day in the LA-based nerd contest “The Knowledge Bowl.”
