* Winter Concerts *

(scenes from concerts past)

(before)
(during)
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'Tis the season...for winter concerts! They always start before the actual winter solstice and they keep right on going through February (at least for elementary music teachers who also like to perform themselves). This year the holiday concert season debuts with my own sweet musician- in-training, who much to her mother's chagrin announced a few years back that she "would like to play the bass now". Never mind that it's the largest and most expensive option for a string player; what string teacher in her right mind would say no to the prospect of a double bass player in her orchestra? So this week begins rehearsals and concerts for the junior high orchestra, followed next week by rehearsals and concerts for a neighborly string trio and then the Claremont Concert Orchestra that I play in, followed by an opera at the L.A. Music Center that the whole family will attend.
And that's just the beginning...