It's hard to believe but tomorrow is the last day of the workshop. We've been in Zlin for ten days already and it seems like we've been here for much longer! I've had a great time at the workshop and I'm looking forward to applying all of the new ideas that I've learned to my conducting and my studying back at home. Tomorrow afternoon I conduct the orchestra for the last time on the end of Brahms' First Symphony. I can't wait to get on the podium and enjoy making music with this orchestra for the last time this summer.
After our restful weekend we hit the ground running yesterday morning with orchestra and chamber group sessions. We've worked our way through the entire repertoire for the workshop in chamber groups and now we're beginning to wrap things up. Last night we went to a restaurant called U Johana for a group dinner where the featured item was whole roasted pig. It was a "meat feast" featuring pig, pork cutlets, chicken cutlets, and salmon. We all ate well. Tomorrow night we get to go to another restaurant for our farewell party where there are apparently beer taps on every table - nice. We check out on Thursday morning from the hotel and head to Vienna.
Once we hit Vienna we're going to be tourists once again. It will be nice to be back on vacation after the workshop before we head home. Thursday night we're planning to see Die Fledermaus at the Theater an der Wien and maybe meet up with some of our workshop friends. Then afterward we have two days to explore the town. I'm excited. Once we get home realty will sink in and we'll have to unpack our boxes from the move. I'm not looking forward to that.
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