At 10:37 PM 4/8/96 -0600, you wrote: >Notes of the March Meeting, NH Chapter PTG (Partial) >Never one >to be less than spectacular, Connie has talked the UConn (Storrs) Music Dept. >into a monster piano concert of the sort she regularly produced back home at >UNH(Plumbers). This however was not jest another crank-out of the Hadyn >Surprise Symphony piano transcription for 15 pianos, but in fact the second >ever performance of the "Concerto for Piano Tuner and Orchestra (aka the >"Ping Ping"), premiered this winter by the Wesleyan (OH) Civic Orchestra (see >PTJ 8/95). An ambitious undertaking considering the addition onstage of the >orchestra to the pack of pianos and the required 20c pitch lowerings of all >fifteen piano in between rehearsals. I just *knew* I was doing mankind a favor when I commissioned that piece. But Bill, get your facts straight--that's Illinois Wesleyan! Surely Ohio Wesleyan wouldn't want to be blamed--oh, I mean take credit for something that wasn't their fault--oh, I mean, uh......... Barbara Richmond, RPT formerly of Bloomington, Illinois PS Hope that 55 gallon drum of Insta-tune worked out OK for you!
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