Hello from Clarinetfest!

Submitted by MostlyAdmin on Thu. Aug 4, 10:52pm

Hi everyone from Clarinetfest 2011! Good day today (Thursday), and better days to come!

Enjoyed some great conversation at the mostlydifferent.com booth today (along with boothmates Matthias Muller of the European Clarinet Association and Reina Abolofia of ClarinetCat, and my awesome helper-in-crime Nathan Smith), including some serious contrabass clarinet logistical and historical talk, networking with other composer-types, chilling with the CSU Long Beach clarinet studio, and hearing of an exciting experimental instrument codenamed "Home Depophone". Met lots of cool people, and saw a bunch of friends, including Eric Mandat, Stephan Vermeersch, Florian Popa, Alejandro Loveira, my peeps from the L.A. Clarinet Choir, and some members of Licorice Anonymous.

Tomorrow should be fairly epic. Lots of crazy-awesome performances on the schedule, even more new shirts to buy, and... perhaps... some shenanigans... <_< >_>