June 3 - Anderson & Roe at Yamaha Artist Services

I made sweeping changes to "the new depiction of the zoological fantasy" and was very pleased with the results. Elizabeth and I have decided to include several movements on our CD to be recorded later this summer.

As for the performance: there were no train-wrecks, but something was missing. It could have been the paltry size of the audience on this rainy Sunday evening (thankfully we had several loyal friends who braved the weather!). It could have been Liz's persistent sickness. Perhaps it was the strange acoustics that did us in, or maybe it was our positioning on an unnecessarily long (3 hours!) concert.

Actually, most likely it was the fact that Liz and I were sitting a full 20 feet apart. The pianos weren't dovetailed like usual; instead they were placed tail to tail to fit the strangely proportioned stage. It was like we were screaming to each other across an energy-zapping chasm, and any hopes for intimate, conversational two-piano playing disappeared in the black-hole between us.

Thanks to Keats, David, Melody, Casey, Charles, and TJ for all your hearty laughs!