Symphony over, Bring on Softball!

Well, I survived the symphony weekend. Gotta tell you, while I enjoyed the opportunity to sing with the symphony, and to sing under the direction of Stuart Malina, I am sooooo glad it’s over! I’ll be honest, if we were getting paid for it, I wouldn’t have minded it so much. But the last week or two was just ridiculous…4+ hours of rehearsal 5 times in the last couple of weeks. That, of course, is on top of the 3 months of weekly 2½ -hour rehearsals that took place before hand. I did make a couple of observations during the weekend…

- Stuart Malina is incredibly talented, immensely passionate, and refreshingly humble.

- Choral singers are the illegitimate children of the music world (ask me to explain some other time).

- Diva attitudes drive me nuts

- As much as I enjoy singing, I’m an instrumentalist at heart. I approach singing as a trumpet player, not a singer. This is not a problem, but I found I tend to focus more on the technical aspects of the music than the text.

- The Harrisburg area, by and large, has no idea how rich an Arts Culture it has.

So, now that it’s done, it’s time to move on to bigger and better things. Softball season is underway, and I’m actually excited about the season for the first time in a few years. I cannot wait to get out on the field, take a few swings and shag some fly balls. I missed our first practice (because of my obligation to the choir), but this week, it’s supposed to be sunny and 70-degrees…perfect softball weather!

And did anyone else notice that after the first week of the season, the Pirates are at .500? Okay, not the most stellar of statistics, but for the Pirates, that’s an accomplishment of colossal proportions.

I close with facts that may interest only me.
- the Pirates won yesterday with the 4 highest paid players riding the pine (of course, those four players combined don’t equal A-Rod’s salary this year, but I digress…)