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Mad­Winds

I’ve been pretty lax about post­ing lately, partly due to lack of new pho­tos or inter­est­ing trips to write about. That will all change soon, though. Fri­day morn­ing, the Mad­Winds (my wood­wind quin­tet, pic­tured at right) are trav­el­ing to south­ern Brazil to par­tic­i­pate in a music fes­ti­val. The Fes­ti­val de Música de Santa Cata­rina is a two-week fes­ti­val that takes place in the city of Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Cata­rina, Brazil. We, along with a num­ber of other grad­u­ate quin­tets from Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties (includ­ing a brass quin­tet from UW-Madison) were invited by Alex Klein, the festival’s direc­tor and for­mer prin­ci­pal oboist of the Chicago Sym­phony. We’ll be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the festival’s orches­tral pro­gram, serv­ing as instruc­tors in the band pro­gram, and per­form­ing as a quin­tet. I’m hop­ing that we’ll get some free time to expe­ri­ence Brazil, as well.
So, I should soon have a wealth of sto­ries and pho­tos suit­able for post­ing. I don’t know yet if we’ll have reg­u­lar ‘net access while we’re there. Even if we do, I don’t know how much free time we’ll have. If I can’t post dur­ing the trip, I’ll be sure to do so after­wards. I’m set up to take a ton of pho­tos — I bought two new bat­ter­ies for my dig­i­tal cam­era and a new 1 GB com­pact flash card — so I hope to end up with lots of good shots.
Adeus!