A recorder playing friend I talked to before the opera had been to three of the fringe events I recommended and didn’t go to yesterday, and reported that he enjoyed them all, although by the end of the day they were starting to blur in his mind.
I sat next to Tom Prescott, the recorder maker, at the opera. He says he has to get to the opera early in the week, because later he has to spend his evenings fixing people’s recorders.
John Tyson said his workshop and concert went well. He had 15 people at the workshop (we had printed 16 booklets, so that was a good decision). He close to filled Williams Hall at the New England Conservatory. He would have rather used Jordan Hall later in the week, but he felt good about both the concert and the turnout. He confirmed that the program was almost identical to the April 30 BRS concert series program. I asked him if they’d changed their interpretation of the “Baldwin cuckoo piece”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/406.html any. He had said after the April concert that it was a bit in flux. He replied that it seemed to have reached a plateau at the moment. Another intensive rehearsal with really taking it apart and putting it back together might help some, but the right way to work on it at this point is to play a lot more Baldwin.
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