Oy. We had the first of two "transition" evenings last night as I attempt to get my Keyboard 2 gal ready to take over for me when I'm gone for two performances next week due to Gabe's Bar Mitzvah. She's a wonderful lady and a good keyboard person, but she is not a conductor, and it was pretty rough last night. I was telling my bass player, who is incredible and helped pick up some of the slack last night, that this has been a good excercise in making things completely conscious for me, as I have conducted so many shows that a lot of what I do is simply intuitive and I don't even think about it--but I need to think about it quite clearly so that I can give explicit direction. Oy.