| Franklin,
Hi, glad you made it to the show and it was nice to visit a little with Susan. I imagine she's very proud to be a member of that chorus. It's developed a staggering sound I enjoy hearing every time they work with us.
The split violin setup is an historic one and works very well. It's taken some geting use to but, hey... we've had to get used to playing rotaries on all the classical stuff and the bones have been using altos and small bore tenors so, evrybody has had to shift their way of doing the classical and early romantic rep.
They grumbled at first but now they're used to it. I like it. It reminds me of the way just about every orchestra used to sit until the '50's.
ML |