This morning marked the beginning of my thirty-seventh season as a member of the orchestra, accompanying the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale at the Church of Saint Agnes in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Today, we performed the Beethoven Mass in C with the Chorale.
Since 1975, I have been playing French horn in the orchestra, about ten to twelve Sundays per year. Originally, this orchestra was composed primarily of members of the Minnesota Orchestra, augmented by a handful of freelance musicians.
[Rehearsing the Dvorak Serenade in Stillwater, Minnesota]
Over the last three and a half decades, I've performed with the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale probably close to four hundred times. We've performed works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Cherubini, Gounod, Bruckner, Rheinberger, Herzogenberg, Dvorak and Haydn.
When I started working at Saint Agnes, symphonic music was my career. Now I look at my Sundays at Saint Agnes as an opportunity to work with colleagues and friends, and to enjoy a diversion from real estate.
[On tour with the Aurora Brass Quintet in Nebraska - That's me with the French horn..]
[With the Minnesota Orchestra French horn section in 1990. That's me on the right.]
[Conducting a recording session in Dallas in 1996, with Violinist Anschel Brusilow]
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