Yesterday was the beginning of a return to rehearsals at HPAC. This week, under the leadership of our clarinet soloist, we are preparing a chamber orchestra concert of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Bellini's Oboe Concerto, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and Mozart's Symphony No. 39 with Barber's Adagio for Strings as the encore. It's a lot of great music, challenging in different ways for different people. The winds and violins have to play incredibly fast in the Prokofiev, the strings have to play incredibly slowly in the Adagio.
Our conductor and soloist is a very friendly fellow from London who smiles jovially through his very dark brown eyes. The generally light-hearted program seems fitting for his convivial jollity and goodwill, and he's always happy to enjoy our playing and to tell us so, even if he'd like to give us another shot at doing something a little better. To him, music just seems to be a way to have a good time with people. Not a bad way to pass to time.
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