Viola, Flute and Harp - Oh My!

The annual February Fest of the Peninsula Music Festival starts tomorrow afternoon with a chamber concert at the Peninsula School of Art. These chamber concerts are a nice way to bring some PMF musicians to Door County in a month other than August and also create much needed 'buzz' on the Festival during the long stretch from August to August.

However, sometimes the logistics for these small chamber concerts can be harder than getting 70 orchestra musicians to the Door Peninsula for the month of August - this concert especially! Three musicians, two states, one harp and the first real snow all season has ended up being a logistical challenge.

The violist and the flutist are flying from Omaha Nebraska to Green Bay airport and renting a car to drive to Door County today. As you may have figured out, you can't take a harp on an airplane and you can't put a harp in the baggage compartment of a plane. Which means that one harpist along with her harp are driving across Iowa and Wisconsin to get to Door County. I just checked the radar and it is snowing in Iowa as well as Wisconsin.

Of course, the snow has tapered off and the plows will be out. The concert isn't until 3:00 p.m. tomorrow so we have lots of time to travel and rest. But it does never cease to amaze me that we can go a whole winter without snow and if the Festival plans a concert, Mother Nature decides to remind us that she is in charge.

But these are the things that keep my job exciting, right? How could it be fun to have everything go as planned, right? My job would be boring, right? Well, just once I'd like to find out what my job would be like if it were boring - once, that is all I ask.

See you at the concert!!!!


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A New Ticketing System and Our Resistence to Change!

We entered the 21st Century this year - we purchased a point of sale ticketing system! Yep, after 60 years, we finally took the plunge and thanks to a generous donation we now can sell tickets, track donations, send letter and emails easily and seamlessly.

Or so you would think! The one thing we did not even consider was the human being's amazing ability to resist change. It is like an instinct that we cannot shut off. Who knew that something that should be so simple has become so complicated, but we are all creatures of habit. And though the old way was cumbersome and complicated, we were used to it, comfortable with it, we had embraced cumbersome and complicated.

Something so easy is almost too hard to get our heads around. We want to complicate it and that just makes it worse. This too shall pass, but in the meantime, we will continue to repeat to ourselves, "keep it simple, embrace the change," and hopefully we will finally hear our own voice!!!!

Life's Constants: Death, Taxes and Change - and we resist them all!!!!