Tomorrow evening at TMH we’re rehearsing the June program (which includes the Bernstein & complete Maslanka for May), plus reading Matt Podd’s three new vocal arrangements and (hopefully) having another shot at the Gould before July. Click here for the rehearsal plan for this week. The break will be very quick tomorrow night, otherwise I can’t fit all this in.

Caramoor has good news and bad news in regard to ticket discounts for July 4. The good news is that sales are brisk already, and there is heightened demand for tickets (and hopefully this is due to the good press from last year). The bad news is that these increased sales, plus the fact that it’s a Saturday night this year, prevents them from offering the same deep discount offered last year. So, this year the promotion code is worth a 20% discount (not 50% like 2014). I don’t want to post it here, viewable to all the world, so I’ll give it to you tomorrow night, and we’ll follow up on it with an direct email.

I promised the article that Eric Milkie found in the 1991 The Instrumentalist, with notes and the errata for Ives’s Variations on “America.” Here is that Ives article. Some of you may find it interesting.

I also attended Tom McCauley’s band concert at Montclair University Friday night. This recording, of Tom’s interpretation of the Maslanka Give Us This Day, “fell off the truck.” Enjoy, and I’ll see you tomorrow evening in Tarrytown.

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