Tomorrow is a Yonkers Philharmonic concert, we're playing on La Gazza Ladra, and Capriccio Espagnole. Fun stuff for low brassers. The orchestra's also doing the Bruch Violin Concerto and The Birds by Respighi. I don't think I'll ever get to do Mahler with this bunch, but the trombones are getting more fun stuff to play. I'm finally getting to the point where I don't have to think about what I'm doing when I play my Xeno trombone. I got it this past summer, but didn't really get a chance to play it much until October or so. I've been playing quartets at a friend's, Ted Blumenthal's, every week since December. That's helped my chops a lot, plus I'm getting to play literature I never got to do in school. I did THREE St. Patrick's Parades last weekend. Saturday was beautiful, we did a doubleheader, but Sunday sucked. Cold, rainy, and long. Coming up this week, I'm doing Annie Get Your Gun at Valhalla HS, that's a fun show. This may be the 1999 version with Bernadette Peters that we're doing. I've done the original orchestration, we'll see how this one works. Anyway, that's what's going on these days musically...