Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Santa Barbara Choral Society sings (and sweats) in the shadow of the Uffizi
We arrived on July 14 in Florence and it was HOT HOT HOT. The temp was about 105 degrees and pretty humid, what with the Arno meandering through town and the town’s being situated in a broad valley that traps the heat. We had arranged tickets for the group for entrance into the [...]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Impromptu Motets in Orvieto’s Duomo
On July 14, we piled into our two big tour buses to make our way north from Rome to Florence, which is our next scheduled concert stop. Our tour guides had scheduled a lunch stop for us at Orvieto, which is a small hill town about half way along in our journey.
Big buses can’t [...]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Singing and Sweltering in Rome
Sorry for being absent for the last couple of weeks, but as most of you know, Mike and I are with my Santa Barbara Choral Society European performance tour and the schedule has been nothing short of a forced march through Italy, since the group arrived on July 11.
In Rome, we had two opportunities to [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Caveat, snoozor! Ambien and the Space Cadet
Those of you who are faithful reader of Mike’s blog already know that our flight from LA to London on Virgin (a day and a lot of headache and hassle later than planned) went pretty smoothly. After cooling our heels for an extra 24 hours at the Hilton LAX, I enjoyed a couple of [...]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Of Fireworks, Freedom, Family, Friends, and Food
Happy Fourth of July to all! Today we gather at beaches, on river banks, in backyards, in parking lots, and arenas all across America to celebrate our nation’s independence with picnics and barbecues and music and fireworks.
I’ll be singing in the Sunken Garden of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse at the big Independence Day [...]
