The memories that come back are now 34 years old....unbelievable...from the little forest falls p.o. box..i recieved their brochure and jacob pillow's close by in becket/washington...stockbridge...area is pretty in the summer..so pretty...ozawa comes on july 24 and 25 but the 25th is a fellows concert with the tmc orchestra sponsored by caroline and james taylor in ozawa hall...a big concert the night before in the shed with Peter Serkin..Brahms..all...tix just went on sale..but it's changed...Levine really has changed it up..can't quite figure out what's going on..if on july 5 for example....there are two concerts at the same time...one in ozawa hall (also tanglewood fellows i believe)..and a third james taylor concert..won't there be some acoustical wierdness...anyway thankfully that won't be happening on july 25. feels a little melancholoy..of all things Levine is opening with Mahler Resurrection..pops stuff precedes the actual opening and some other avant garde lighter stuff keeps going after twd closes and the fellows go home...very different from 34 years ago....and years hence...

called my classmate and friend from our freshman year in college as music majors...bob...yesterday..hadn't called him since my mom passed last august..he was finishing up on an orchestration of an orchestral/choral work..and has done some more orchestral arrangements..of smaller pieces..since..he impresses me so much..lives near columbia univ.just a perfect example of a person who lives the local life of gigging and creating at the same time..he's an organist so has his church jobs like composers of the baroque and classical...of old ..yet hears so much 19th and 20th and 21st century music in his head...his instrumentation is potentialy huge..you can be talking along and he'll say ..yeah well this is the latest on that project....and with him you never know if ..when you dip in your finger in chocolate you're gonna get a cherry or a warm..very unpredictable personality...another collegue of his was having trouble setting up a particular huge performance at Carnegie and well some people are known for taking the better gig is all that was about but so creative always in the way he puts things...i'm sure i say things simply..i take care of my 95 year old after all...and lately especially that affects me..mind goes off the effusive compliments to basics and observation of focus that i want to retain in my own life..tofu good exercise extremely good eating ...in other words...with good steady strong walking has kept him easily with no illnesses at all ...to nearly 95...his weight is extremely slim...great help as a result..he's light ..has a spring in his step...plagued with hearing issues but that tends to be genetic..as does long life somewhat...i guess..still ..we are given the plate we are given ...and my point of calling bob was to talk of our possible pilgrimage to hear ozawa twice on the last weekend of july...i have to sell my mountain real estate so it's just not possible this year....we've had dramatic changes in our lives here ...in our family ...which comes first...and we have been living the palm tree life ever since...love you all...gp

Happy Easter to all..wasn't sure where to put my comments of the morning from Redlands Ca..under Tanglewood or back under Gospel Hall and Oates since basically this area tends to lean toward Hall and Oates for some reason...this whole thing..oats and all...and btw start your days with oats...get the dates from Indio...best dates in the US..have an orange..and a plain boiled egg off and on..and you're pretty much good to go...slice of whole wheat toast...my dad and i do it every day ...he makes the breakfast..never burns the oatmeal..slow cooked..the fast stuff doesn't count.. Since last year at this time I was just returning from Lenox Ma..after having spent Nov forward there...near YO YO MA's house and on his road...near Stockbridge...( had found a cool barn off season rental..soak tub and all..built by two cellists...so acoustically superb and i probably foolishly (but it was fun) craned my piano into the barn on the second floor loft for a few months..)-I decided to run over here to the Twd topic..It was great being there in the winter..Albany they say..is the capital of snow fall in the winter...in the US...It's approximately true...makes it all very white and pretty...like frosting...as James Taylor writes..It's a fairly rural area in the off season...On the 3 month season for concerts and dance..it's jam packed with NYC (mainly) tourists...and lots of weekenders from everywhere...You need money to have an enjoyable weekend there and people who have it show up...For years I've gone back since my fellowship days...in 76..collecting tickets from here and there..cuz that's the best way to get a good single seat for sure...I meet people along the way once i'm there and we always hook up for the Sat morning open rehearsals which are cheap and the best deal of all the summer festivals that i can think of...general seating and you can 'walk don't run' to the front seats once they open the gates...it's a true pilgrimage...During the week now...as opposed to when i was a student...the public can listen in ( from a distance at the back of the shed but still good) to the actual BSO rehearsals...undisturbed...still somewhat the best secret around..TWD iw basically a place for weekenders..lodging difficult to achieve...yeah well...my stream of consciousness won't last too long this morning because i am discplining myself to start my days with the treadmill now...and many other various..in reality my dad is 2 miles down the Palm lined wide street of Redlands...so in this rental I have it pretty good..My piano likes the swamp cooler over any central a/c and swamp coolers are hard to come by..Redlands has gotten too humid though for them to be as affective as they once were I'm sure...All of the auto sprinkler systems go off and well it's a pretty town...adjacent to an international medical community of note. a small college town...where i worked for 10 years...my second stint at a 20 year higher profile career...which was all administrating..(some playing)...for the univ...the first 10 years were in Boston..as a gig artist..so I'm solid on that or was...My chops are down now....I"m really into a second career of serious caregiving..and like it very much..I may very well end up with a degree in nursing before it's all over...which allows logistic freedom galore...WHICH I SEEK...If some of you have googled or yahooed Georgeann Peterson..you can see what i'm talking about in two minutes...flat...Someone made a page for me and i do appreciate it...a woman about to turn 62...and determined to set a nice record for my dad as the POW of world war 11 that he is...I am...without question a died in the wool baby boomer..me me me me ...the casual reader will say but it's the performing bidness ..( not that i'm now in it because i'm not...but it's a habit of allowing all who associate with me closely or from a distance to reflect on what it is that makes them tick. Y'all have a great religious holiday with your friends relatives and spouses....traditional family values aren't all bad...Georgeann Peterson

I would like to say I"m happier with TAnglewood than I am but yesterday in the Berkshire Eagle there was an announcement that yet once again Levine is going in for back surgery...cancelling the rest of his Met Opera gigs for now..but WILL CONDUCT the Mahler on July 9..It's just not like the Koussevitsky,Bernstein,Ozawa legacy..He's 66 and not healthy..and has a full time job with singers..I don't get it..his leading the BSO..such a great great orchestra with such a great history...As always there are interesting guest conductors and many talented soloists ..It's bigger than any one single person but ya just wish the leadership could be stronger...at least I do.

My Tanglewood performance audio tapes--are part of the Coates/Bernstein archives. My letters of encouragement thankyou's...and questions about how my conducting ideas were coming along....are mine...here...quite a few newspapers photo's (from Berkshire Eagle) from a conducting seminar a few years later...( summer '83 )...haven't shown up yet in my hard scores..Previn, Ozawa, Abravanel, and Mr. Bernstein..I was the only girl on the theatre stage for orchestra rehearsals..I suppose that's why I got in so many frames with the greats..but with Previn..photo ..shows more...still looking...LOL..boy i have a lot of junk around here...we're sellin the water fall and the pollen...(and the snow) I think..much to throw out...great place...twd 1976..living in a tent down by the lake with the inquisitive BSO guys...heh heh...you can get a lot done in sleeping bags..zipped together..fun times..not sure about the winter snow...in Pittsfield..but tried it out...still thinkin...love ya..g

'play-pray-sing-without ceasing.' georgeann peterson-dowswell