Just a quick post to keep everyone updated. Yesterday a few of us took advantage of a cancelled rehearsal to sneak away to a local fish market in Coquimbo.Wow, this place was awesome. It's everything I love about Chile. The people, the color of the water, the fisherman's boats rocking lazily in the water, giant pelicans lounging beside sea lions on the large, jagged rocks. We had lunch by the water (we ate fish) before heading back for afternoon rehearsal.
We also had the privilege of having a private Q&A with the Chilean composer Jaun Orrego-Salas who is the founder of the Latin American Music Center at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University and remains on faculty there. He is also our composer in residence. He was highly entertaining and it was a real treat.
Our first concert is only days away (June 11). There is still plenty of work to be done but one gets that sense that people are itching to play, ready to get started. Our first program i a doozie, Shostakovich 5, Don Juan and the Sibelious Violin Concerto played by a remarkable young Curtis student named Timothy Chooi. We are expecting a large and enthusiastic audience so it should be a blast. And, as if I wasn't embarrassed enough the first time another article came out today in a different Valparaiso newspaper. Here's the link if you're curios:
http://edicionimpresa.soychile.cl/estrella-valparaiso/2012/07/09/full/30/
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