DR JANE in Istanbul.
Recital: DONE.It went well. She was prepared, confident, and presented herself beautifully.The performing space (a very modern, very beautiful chapel) leaves plenty to be desired acoustically for these purposes, as it is all hard surfaces and expansive spaces. The piano was great, but hard to keep at a level it needed to be under a soft, un-miked singer. I think their music major program is fairly new, and they just don't have other performance venues except for the theeder where plays and musicals are done. But it was a fun experience and I'll probably do more there in the future.
Thanks all. Mrs. R all better now. She always has bad experiences with blood draws, any of these sorts of procedures.I need to schedule my own colonoscopy, and I’m leaning towards being fully awake during it.
Some nice quotes from Daniel Faigin of California Highways - a blogger, really, but aren't most reviewers that these days. Also, he states that he doesn't consider himself a critic, but he sees lots of LA theater and has written about it for years - he's been a fan of my shows."The leads of the show are outstanding, most notably Sydney DeMaria as Alice Van Guilder. She was the greatest surprise of the show: A wonderful singer, strong in movement, and with outstanding comic chops ... (Reusch) had a very pleasant and strong singing voice, and captured the naivete of his character well. He also had strong comic timing ... The show was directed by Bruce Kimmel, who is an expert at this sort of thing. He has a lot of fun with these shows (I still remember The Brain from Planet X many many years ago at the Chance, his productions of L.A. Now and Then and Levi at LACC, and his recent 70 Girls 70 at GRT), and it comes through in the direction ... this production of Drat! The Cat! is quite fun, and it is a chance to see a rarely produced gem. If you get the chance, visit GRT to see Drat! The Cat! and learn what Broadway missed thanks to a newspaper strike. Someone should encourage Encores to see this: it could fit will with the shows they do. Further, I encourage GRT to keep doing shows like this: Revisiting shows that either failed or missed originally, or have been forgotten. Everyone seems to revive the same shows (why, oh why, is The Sound of Music on tour yet again). It’s nice to see something that we haven’t seen in ages."
Waiting for an artisan pizza topped Meyer lemon, arugula, prosciutto and balsamic glaze. I hope it’s not too sweet.
Sipping is under rated as an activity for sure.
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I slept quite well for a change. The alarm rang at 5:30, I thought about my day, and since I had nothing on my schedule, I went back to bed for another hour with Annabelle and Thatch.
Wireless doorbells, shown in their charging pods:
Yesterday I had a wonderful arranging session with Joe Hearson, whom I hadn't seen in maybe ten years, when he and his father came to New York for a week of theatre. Joe's father was musical director for several groups in England, and we became friends via Castrecl. Shortly after their NYC trip, Joe's father asked me if I would help Joe with orchestrating a piece he had composed, and we had a good time with the piece through scans, PDFs, and emails.Since then, Joe graduated from the University of Manchester, married French horn player Sophie, had his first child in January 2025, and formed the City of Stoke-on-Trent Symphony Orchestra, which he conducts. I'n very proud of him.
DR. AWKWARD spelled backward is still DR. AWKWARD.
Me want. https://laurenslatest.com/carrot-cake-cobbler/
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My piano teacher is such a taskmaster.
At the first winery, the lavender was in full bloom. The poppies were opening up. And there were still plenty of wildflowers.
