1st Day in NYC

WE MADE IT! Alyson and I are here in NYC and I'm writing this from our cool pad in the Village. We, of course, were good little boys and girls and got to the airport the prescribed 1.5hrs early. Of course we both breezed through all check-ins. I managed to alienate my singing buddies by taking pictures of them at 6:30am in the morning (which according Mr James Yorkston is just way too early). Alyson, on the other hand got to a SFO so early there was no one else at the gate for a full half hour. Finally a large pre-teen Ukranian orchestra showed up and all was well.

Seriously, the flights were a slam dunk. No problems.

The traffic into the city was pretty bad and the clock in the taxi was off so we all thought we were an hour late for our first rehearsal. I kinda freaked because we were still getting the keys from our landlady when I thought I was due at the hall. More on that later. Alyson will have to post that story. With the freak avoided I arrived at rehearsal tan rested and ready. I have a few picks of our pre-Zankel rehearsal, but we were not allowed to take any pics in the actual hall (BUMMER!)

The rehearsal was all well and good and I think we'll sound great tomorrow. Meredeth was there to welcome us and she said some really really nice things that made us all feel good. I only whish I could remember them . Maybe someone else in the group will remember and post them as a comment (pretty pretty please someone save me from my awful awful memory)

The coup de grais of course was that we all got Carnegie Hall back stage passes! That's going in the scrap book for sure.

Ok that's enough for tonight. I got recruited to make a statement to the PMErs about getting some sleep before the show and here I am writing at 2am. Must sleep now!

-Eric

You can all of today's pics here:
NYC 11-5-05

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Last PME Rehearsal in Cali

Hi there,
Last night PME had it's last rehearsal in prep for our Carnegie Hall debut. Sounds so grand, don't it? I took a few pics of the rehearsal. We seem awfully relaxed, no? Here we are listening to a recording of our Sunday performance. The pieces we sang are all part of our various programs in NY (selections from Meredeth Monk, Barber Agnus Dei & the Martin Mass).


Here we are listening to get some insight into our performance before trying it on the big stage. I have to say, it was hard listening to the tape of the show. No matter how good a show is, the recording is always a bit of a let down. It's really almost too easy to pick apart the faults. Dick gave us a few pointers and in typical PME fashion we all gave our opinions, sometimes to excess. Ok, almost always to excess. But then that's what we do. I think in the end we still feel like we're ready (warts and all). A former member of Meredeth's ensemble was in attendance at the Sunday show and had lots of nice things to say. That's certainly encouraging.

More pics of the last rehearsal are posted here:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/freemaneric@sbcglobal.net/my_photos

-Eric

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