Bowling Green Visit---Strings Camp and Wind Turbines
We took my younger son, the upright bass player, to Orchestra Strings Camp at Bowling Green State University over the past weekend. He will be there until this Saturday when we return to hear him play the pieces they are learning in the orchestra there. We will first get to hear him play in a chamber performance---in his case, it is going to be a duet with just him and another upright bass player---and then we will get to hear him play in the entire strings group orchestra. He has been looking forward to going to this camp for a while. He went to it last year and really loved it. He seemed to learn a lot from going there and also met others who enjoy music the way he does. In fact, it was at Strings Camp last year that he met his girlfriend. She plays the violin and piano and is planning to also learn the viola. Yes, they have now been dating for a year! Ay-yi-yi! Well, we won't go into that topic for now. It was fun to take him to camp because I found out that the dorm he i...