Sounds exciting! We have moved into various new spaces over the last year and a half. Our main auditorium opened up with a Gala, April 1996. You can see a pictures of it here: http://www.uc.edu/~wathenmj/piano/instruments.htm Tell us more about your shop. Did you get new equipment? At 12:15 PM 9/22/97 -0500, you wrote: >List, > > Well, we started using our new music building July 5th and everything is >now pretty well all finished and running. It's WONDERFUL, especially >compared to what we were in before. It's great to have a shop I can >actually put a couple of pianos in to work on. Everything isn't like I want >it yet, but eventually...... > I got all 136 pianos tuned before the Fall semester started, with a lot >of help from a couple of "associates" (thanks Danny & Les). Actually I >still have a few of our "lease" pianos not tuned yet, but soon. > Our new S & S 'D' and 5 B's are also here. The B's need a lot of prep >yet, which the dealer is providing and I've just been putting out "brush >fires" as they've come up. Once they're done and all the problems are >corrected, I think they're going to be very good instruments. > The 'D' sounds great in the new hall and the acoustics in the hall are >wonderful and it's georgeous to look at. The shell around the stage is >two-toned wood and the panels above the stage are adjustable. There's a >large orchestra pit where the floor can be raised/lowered. All in all, I >think it's going to be a great year. > This is our grand opening week with concerts beginning Tuesday and >running through next Monday (this Thursday is dark). For those interested, >here is the list of concerts: > > Marilyn Horne, Mezzo-Soprano & the UH Orchestra > John Bayless, Pianist (Rhapsody in Blue) with the UH Wind Ensemble > Academy of Ancient Music - London (Vivaldi's The Four Seasons) > Verdi Requiem, Robert Shaw, Conductor - with a 250 voice choir and UH > Orchestra > Larry Gatlin - A Salute to His Alma Mater > UH Jazz Orchestra with The Three Tenors (Joe Henderson, George Coleman and > Joe Lovano, Tenor Saxophone's) > > How's that for a variety!!!! :-) The concerts are being used for fund >raising, with the cheapest ticket available to any concert being $75.00. >Marilyn Horne's cheapest ticket is $500.00!! Other categories range on up >to as much as $25,000.00. We can get comp tickets, of course! > Sorry about being a little off-topic, but I just had to talk about it a >"little". > >Avery > > >___________________________ >Avery Todd, RPT >Moores School of Music >University of Houston >Houston, TX 77204-4893 >713-743-3226 >atodd@uh.edu >http://www.uh.edu/music/ > > > ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Michael J. Wathen Email: michael.wathen@uc.edu College-Conservatory of Music tel: 513 556-9565 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0096 http://ucccm56.ccm.uc.edu
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