Today I go back to work. It’s our first (of two) Opera San José orchestra-only rehearsals for Faust. We arrived home from a seven day vacation on Sunday evening, so it will be quite interesting to see how my mouth and brain deal with a three hour rehearsal. Later in the night (too late, but it was the only time we could get the hall) I have a rehearsal for the Reinecke trio. In between I have two students to teach. I’m going to really have to apply brain power to get through the day after having been off for so long. Ah well … nothing like jumping into it all very quickly!

Here’s a bit of the start of Faust for you: