Clintonville Community Band 5/16

After finishing a gig with the Westerville Band, I did this one at the Whetstone Park of Roses. It was supposed to be an outdoor performance but it was moved indoors due to the threat of rain. A relatively routine summer gig. Lots of marches and showtunes.

Westerville Concert Band 5/16

This concert featured Trumpet soloist Scott Belck, a professor of trumpet at Capital University. We did a piece called Rose Variations and also La Virgen de Macarena. He was a remarkable performer, as good as anyone I've been around in twenty years.

Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra 5/9

This concert by the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra of Columbus opened with a "Scene" from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. That was followed by the fourth movement of Mahler's Seventh Symphony (the expanded MCO is no longer a chamber orchestra) and Beethoven's Romance for Violin and Orchestra. The soloist, Erin Gilliland, performed it beautifully, and it was a privilege have her be a part of our performance. After the intermission, we opened with Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio followed by the inner two movements of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. The Mahler was a pretty heavy piece, but the audience responded quite well to it. Kudos to all the extras were asked to take part in this performance. Everything went well with the relatively few rehearsals we had with this community orchestra.