Day Four - Cincinnati May Festival

No photos today. The rehearsal was a shorter one, although pretty intense.

The youth chorus joined us on stage for the first orchestra run-through of the Mozart Requiem. We ran it, with only a couple of repeats. Conlon wanted to move on the second half of the program, with Patti LuPone's stuff -- Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.

As Conlon told us the other night, her manager won't permit anyone to be in the hall while she's rehearsing, which is really irritating. Shades of Kathleen Battle! I have very little patience with divas.

After all, WE (the festival) are her employers and she is a GUEST performer at OUR festival. To not be permitted to see her performance in rehearsal is insulting. Despite Conlon's promise that we can see the real performance (as opposed to the rehearsal), we've been told that is not possible, as there is no time to get us from the hall at intermission in time to warm up and get on stage for the second half of the evening.

Conlon says he's working on her, but I doubt that we'll see her. I'll have to ask someone who was in the audience to find out how it went.

Grrr.

After the Mozart the Youth Chorus had a quick meeting in a large dressing room about their schedule for the rest of the festival, the Chamber Choir went into the rehearsal hall to work on Sunday's concert stuff, and everybody else went home -- and it was only 8:00 pm (we started at six).

We went through most of the Brahms Zigeunerlieder, finishing at 9:30.

It's good to have the extra half hour.

And, with a tip of the hat to Mr. Pepys, so to bed.