Week three means all the staff has been here for a total of four weeks, which is crazy to even think about. Interlochen is amazing in every way possible. The weather has been pretty nice and unusually consistent, trips to Traverse City have been amazing, and listening to all the performances around campus is just great!
Yesterday (Sunday July 11th) was the second WYSO Concert with guest performer, David Shifrin who played the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Did I mention that the tickets were FREE? Besides the fact that he is one of the best clarinetists ever, he is also an Alumni of the Arts Academy Boarding School here, so that must have been cool for him. The WYSO also played Pines of Rome (also amazing), and as we got to the third movement, there is a part in the music where usually a recording of bird chirping plays, but as the orchestra played the movement, actual birds outside started chirping as well..and to add to the atmosphere inside Kresge, the fourth movement begins quietly and slowly the orchestra builds its instrumentation; first the violins, cellos, woodwinds, then brass. So as the orchestra was building intensity and sound, the sky outside began to cloud over and get dark as the sun set, and the wind came in stronger and stronger over the lake as the orchestra hit its peak sound. Talk about surround sound. It was amazing, I love music so much, and not many people realize how all the things in one place can go together if you have a little music.
So we are on to Week Three, as I said before. not much is new, just finding time to practice, sit at the lake and the staff beach, read, and hang with friends and campers. On Thursdays there is a reading orchestra in the evening, so I'm excited for that. The Reading Orchestra is just for staff members who want a chance to play in an ensemble and to sightread over the summer. I definitely need to practice sight reading, and I do miss playing in an ensemble, so it should be fun.
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