Allegro

it's been busy here since the orchestra came back from tour; and i've been stressy getting all this crap done.

one of hardest tasks i've got is scheduling meetings that involve musicians because their schedules are so irregular and they don't live on email like us admin folk.

yesterday, during rehearsal, i went out on stage at the end of their break to pigeonhole a flutist -- can you make it on 4/13 or not? so she rumages in her purse for her calendar and then it sinks in.

i'm sitting center stage at Davies Symphony Hall, surrounded by world class musicians, all warming up. for a moment, i see what it's like to be one of them. to be on stage. all the sounds flow around me, because i'm sitting in the middle of the orchestra and not in the house. i'm not a ticket holder. i'm part of the symphony.

i wonder how many people ever get that experience. especially people who don't know adagio from allegro.