Good morning, all! It's very quiet in the hotel thius moirning. I suspect one reasson is that it's Sunday and the other is that it's the day after the big French-Irish game - the Irish lost - but I gather from the staggering waiter in the elevator it was a big party night. I was up until 11 finishing my new dialogue guides, which I hope work and which I hope Joe picked up on his way home.
Yesterday's and today's band rehearsals are in Monkstown, which is on the Irish Sea; it cost 13.50 euros to gewt there yesterday by taxi, and today I will ride out with Judy, our producer who's just landed in Dublin and on her way to the hotel. The orchestra played really well, and my worries about work not being finished were unfounded. We found several wrong notes, some I missed, some the copyists missed, and some Victor Herbert's. I got lots of compliments on the beautiful music prep, so I will pass that on to the whole team when I return. The soloists were fine - although my wonderful soprano Lynda is concerned about her dialogue - and they have a day off. Our young tenor Dean, who's come back from Munich, is in today since he took Friday and Saturday off to see family. So, it will be he and the chorus today. He's good so I susapect he will be finished and out in no time at all.
The first cello and harpist are nephew and niece of the late Irish tenor Frank Patterson, with whom I worked on 4-5 of his Radio City St Patrick's Day events, so it wasa a pleasure to meet them. I still get ASCAP royalties on Frank's recording of 'America the Beautiful.'
So, I have to go and check my itenerary and see when I depart before I set up any meetings I cannot make.
