Author: MDW
Date: 2007-06-25 02:24
Andrew wrote, in part:
..."The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" Out of interest how many of the Americans here would consider the trip to England for the conference?
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Or the other side of the Pond, eh? : )
I didn't get to go this yr, but was able to make the one in TX 2 yrs ago, and my first one, 1997 at Northwestern near Chicago was fairly close to me. And my 2nd was in 1999, in Madison, WI, which is the closest to me it's ever been. I attended the premiere of Peter Schikele's bassoon concerto, and was even able to catch him coming off stage to shake his hand! It was cool, bc we were big fans of his PDQ Bach stuff in college.
In TX, I got to hear Brenda Schuman-Post's contest winning solo, Fantasy on Themes of Star Trek. An article she wrote about how the piece came to be appears in the most recent issue of the Double Reed.
And I met Meg Cassell (my reedmaker) at the TX conf; she was on her way to have lunch with several colleagues, and she invited me to tag along. One of the colleagues was Brenda-- so now I can say I had lunch with her!
It was quite hot there, I suppose some of our UK attendees might have a problem with that, but it sure it worth it to go. The vendor area is awesome, and there are many many performances to attend. Try to get to play in the double reed band on the last day - it's a blast!!
I just emailed DH that maybe we could make plans to go to UK in '09 since we've been talking about traveling. Maybe I'll see you there, Andrew!
M
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