making LEMONADE, A PERFORMANCE CORE MEMORY

When life gives you lemons, it's time to make some tasty super tart delicious free lemonade with those #@$%^ things!! 🤓🤓🤓 

Audience noise can be distracting, but I find it oddly reassuring to have auditory reminders that there are actual people out there being human. Last weekend during the Colorado Symphony and Chorus’ Mendelssohn “Lobgesang” performance an audience member could be heard snoring super loudly for an impressively long time.  💤💤 This type of thing doesn’t really bother me.  I think falling asleep to live music has just got to be the best nap anyone could ever have.  Still, much to my delight and amusement, I was reminded of the time an infant hit the squalling phase of their concert experience right during a super exposed viola solo I had in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Chorus No. 6 way back in 2016. 

This was an EPIC experience and a career highlight for sure.  My stand partner was visibly losing a battle not to break into giggles, and I definitely considered standing up from my seat to wander the stage while playing in search of my siren song duet partner coming from an unknown spot high in the mezzanine behind me.

That was certainly a time for making some refreshing zesty lemonade... AND I got a twitter review out of it! 😂😂😂

Do you have a juicy (see what I did there…🤓)  lemons into lemonade story?  Share it in the comments!

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