This blog is a little reluctant to accept pictures, but I'm working on it. A few from Gala night below.
Last night's concert in DC was amazing - attended by about 300 people who loved the music. The ensemble was tight and the hall at the Library of Congress is fantastic - it's very live, while still feeling intimate.
So here's a true story about the excitement of being on the road:
Some of you have seen our beautiful tour program books, which include information on the Messenger project, our sponsors, dates and venues, etc. We're all really proud of those books and eager to get them to our audience.
So we decided to ship them ahead to the various venues. Being the clever non-profit employees we are, we also decided to save money, and eliminate one possibility for disaster, by consolidating the shipments. So I sent 500 books to DC, with the idea that we'd bring half of them to New York.
Books were shipped from Ventura on Tuesday and arrived yesterday morning in DC, which should have been the end of the story. I called the Library producer with a tracking number and name of signatory, and forgot about it...until.
Until, a few hours later, I called another producer at the Library, who immediately said to me "Oh....I heard the bad news."
!!!
"the bad news?"
"About your program books? She didn't call you?"
She had not, in fact, called me. I knew something had gone wrong, but didn't know what, so I weakly played my only card -
"but - but I have a TRACKING NUMBER."
Yeah. Well, my sad little tracking number can't sway the forces of government. The books did not make it to the show last night, because they were being held -
AND CHECKED FOR ANTHRAX.
As, apparently, is all mail that comes to government offices in DC, which would have been nice to know. But it gave Adrian a chance to talk about the "Messenger" concerto from the stage, which the audience liked, and the Library was nice enough to print our program page and distribute it at the concert.
Happily, there were still a few program books in Ventura, which we had FedExed to New York, where I'm happy to report we are, and they are, and it's a magnificent beautiful city.
Morgan Library concert tonight.
the people on the bus
Ani gets ready
backstage at the Cathedral
Hope to post more soon, including pictures of the huge crowd!
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