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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