SYS-CMW 2011 Week II

Another wonderful week of music making came to an end on Sunday. We had another great group of kids as part of the Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop (week II), in its 22nd season!. What was especially nice with the group of assistant coaches this year was the addition of the Tatman twins, two of my favorite players from the workshop from the last several years.

The repertoire this year consisted of selected movements from Grieg's Holberg Suite, the always fun Hoedown from Copland's Rodeo, and a new piece commissioned by the workshop to continue our own composer-in-residence series by my good friend Zack Wilson, Swallow Falls. I was also happy and very honored to have been commissioned to write a piece for the very capable assistant coach sextet (who in previous years performed Brahms' first sextet, among other pieces).

The students and coaches worked as hard as always and us coaches had nice time inaugurating an annual mid-week happy hour!

Pics to come.

Best 9 yet!

Shot a personal best 43 on the back 9 at Wildhorse to improve to my second personal best of 93 (had sort of a crap front 9).

Funny that at Wildhorse one of my worse scores happened the first time I played it (December 2010: 122) and my two best scores ever have happened in back to back weeks (July 19 and 26 2011, 92 and 93).

Yay for improvement on something that ultimately has no real bearing on my professional life (sigh)...