Hi Jerry and everybody else,

Well there have been a few changes since I last posted. Not earthshaking but still.....

I got into the Mozart group after all. Another bass evidently had to drop out and the director called and asked if I was interested. That was fun--I was therefore in all 3 parts of the concert--Mozart, Porgy and Bess and Lauridsen---- (California composer--I wasn't at all smitten with the piece when we started, but by the concert, parts of it were absolutely heavenly--basically like harmonized Gregorian chant.)

Anyway, the other piece of news is I am to be a guest soloist with the National Symphony this Friday.

A kazoo soloist. (one of two)

In PDQ Bach's "The Seasonings"--with the master in attendance--who knows, he might conduct.

Now that is a kick--I've loved PDQ Bach for a long time. My favorite of his is New Horizons In Music Appreciation-----first movement of Beethoven's 5th, broadcast as if it were a baseball game "It's a beautiful day for a concert--there's not a cloud in the ceiling. How many people do you think are here, Bob? Well, Pete, I'd say....I don't know Pete."
And later--"That sounds like the theme. You know, I think we're going to be hearing a lot of that theme." And on through the whole movement, complete with noting "unsportsmanlike behavior"--when a soloist takes a line--and noting that the conductor will be doing a baton commercial after the concert. And so on.



In fact, I've got to go study the kazoo part now.

Glad to see the coffee is still brewing.