IHS 43: Rehearsals and PARKING

This morning we had brunch at an unusual restaurant not far from the SFSU campus, The Mayflower Restaurant:

A phone call from wonderful Tomoko Kanamaru told us it was time for Ewazen, before the other performers snapped her up :-) so we headed to the Creative Arts Building. We had an hour between our Ewazen rehearsal and Symposium Choir rehearsal, so Jon and I walked the campus, which is quite beautiful:

Then on to Symposium Choir rehearsal, where it was great to see friends and enjoy playing in a horn section with some of the finest players in our Society:

Next up was scouting out parking for the week. There is a garage at the end of State St. that is just $5 a day.

and while we're talking about getting to campus in the morning, we were told by a San Jose native to avoid 19th Street at all costs, unless you want to sit in traffic for upwards of an hour (!). We are planning on coming in via 280 and Merced and avoiding 19th entirely . . .

Our Memphis friends Ion (of Balu Mutes fame)and Kyle met us at Extreme Pizza for a quick bite, where Jon and Ion began plotting the Next Big Thing :-) you never know what's coming next from Balu Mutes, so stop by his table at the Symposium and find out!

The show starts tomorrow at noon, folks! See you there!

--Catherine

San Francisco, and IHS 43, Here We Come!

Another year of playing and teaching means time for another International Horn Symposium, hosted this year by Wendell Rider at San Francisco State University.

You can download the .pdf of the program HERE

After an uneventful plane trip (except for discovering that my Conn V8DS does NOT fit under the seat of an American Airlines' Embraer, when it DOES fit on a Continental one), I arrived at SFO, picked up the rental car, and jumped into rush hour traffic to meet a Gap friend downtown. After some pics and an adventure ro remember where I parked (!), I headed back to pick up Jon at SFO.

Next morning we headed to lunch at a local spot, Lakeside Cafe, where the patty melts are delicious and breakfast is served late:-)

We drove over to SFSU Campus to check out the venue, and happened to walk up as our host pulled up to unload supplies for registration. And to supervise the set-up of nearly 100 tables for our vendors!

2010 Southeast Horn Workshop, March 26-28, USM, Hattiesburg, MS

The 2010 Southeast Horn Workshop will be March 26-28 on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, MS. The host will be Heidi Lucas, horn prof. at Southern Miss.

Give Heidi a little more time to get emails out and the website up and running. She got married this past weekend to USM trombone prof., Bruce Tychinski! Congratulations and best wishes to both of them!

For those of us who work within the university setting, a regional workshop may be all we can swing financially this year, what with budget cuts and the International show being in Australia. So I'm predicting that attendance at the Southeast show will be a record-breaker!

You will see both me and my studio there, with lots on tap; a consortium premiere, some music for horn and soprano, and all of your favorite vendors.

As Heidi gets info out, I'll be replicating it here, so check back!

UL Horns go International, More day 5-- Thursday

Click on the blog entry title, above, to see the Symposium program booklet for Thursday

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Rick Todd and Jim Rattigan with the WIU faculty jazz

Rick Todd and Jim Rattigan

Rick Todd and Jim Rattigan

British jazz hornist Jim Rattigan

British jazz hornist Jim Rattigan

Great WIU jazz faculty!

Rick Todd visits with UCLA alums

Geoffrey Simon conducts the Symposium horn choir

Geoffrey Simon conducts the Symposium horn choir, with David Amram and Rick Todd on . . . COWBELL?!?!

Geoffrey Simon conducts the Symposium horn choir

Rick Todd with WIU jazz faculty

David Amram

Rick Todd, Jim Rattigan, and WIU jazz faculty

David Amram and Jim Rattigan

Alex, RICK TODD, and Daniel hangin' at BWW

Mary

David Amram and Rick Todd

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Temperaments

On Sunday, I presented my lecture on learning to recognize Keirsey's Temperaments in your horn students, and how to teach to each type in the horn studio. Surprisingly, every seat was taken, as it was at 9 am and a partial conflict with the horn choir rehearsals. LOTS of lively discussion ensued!

UL Horns Go International, day 4- Wednesday

Click on the blog entry title above to go to the Symposium program booklet for Wednesday

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Marcia Spence, with Simon Sargon at the piano

composer Simon Sargon

the Illinois State University Horn Choir, conducted by Joe Neisler

The Illinois State University Horn Choir, conducted by Joe Neisler

Bruce Atwell performs les Parcs de Paris

Naomi Seidman, Jennifer Ratchford-Sholtis, and Jason Aquila

composer Walter Mays, Nicholas Smith, and Hyung Gu Kim

Nicholas Smith and Hyung Gu Kim

Doug Lundeen plays Rossini's Prelude, Theme & Variations

John B., Bruce, and Mary came with me to buy sheet music. Lots and lots of sheet music!

The University of Missouri Horn Choir

Bill Klingelhoffer and Jason Aquila

Andrew Pelletier

The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse

Audrey Wood and Paul Blackstone

The Four Hornsmen, backed by the Symposium Horn Choir

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This morning I enjoyed a lecture demo with Marcia Spence and Simon Sargon. I'll be doing some of Sargon's A Clear Midnight with Shawn Roy and Chan Kiat soon!

We had our first horn choir rehearsal, and we'll rehearse two more times between now and our performance Saturday afternoon.

The afternoon concert featured modern works, and Rossini T&V.

This afternoon, money was spent on sheet music- lots of money!

The evening concert featured Anrew Pelletier as the star of the show!
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