re: #150 austin_blue

We do 14 concerts in fourteen days, all classical, all college and post graduate kids, all on scholarship. They get there, they pay for food, and we cover the rest, which includes mentors, lodging, and music (which ain’t cheap).

Lots of chamber, but two large orchestral concerts and one chamber orchestra concert, with chorus. The big finish was Saturday, with Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Daphnis and Chloe as the showstoppers. D&C is a monster.

Great festival, wonderful music, but damn, I’m worn out carting tymps and marimbas to various venues and setting up chairs and podia, getting into ceilings and setting lights, building soloist’s platforms, and everything else that nuts-and-bolts production requires.

Debussy & Ravel? That’s a heck of a show right there. Would have loved to have heard that concert. All you’d need to add to really make an ultimate French classical music show would be Faure’. Perhaps his “Requiem”?