rushed

This is going to be rushed and have a lot of typos. I'm on break from rehearsal at Hilla's house. WE're learning Quartettsatz, and I couldn\t be happier after literally a month of nothing but Elvis Costello. Who's amazing, don't get me wrong, but you know... I needed a little Schubert to wake me up. A Little Schubert. The title of an adorable kids book I grew up with that I'm planning on translating into Hebrew for Itamar, Hilla's 5-year old. We premiered this theater piece of Costello's "Juliet Letters" last week, and after a pretty hellish couple of weeks of rehearsals, it came together somehow, and the audiences were all over it! Which is a blessing and a curse, cause I want to move onto other things, play more thorny, difficult contemporary music. But if there's demand for it, we'll be playing this a lot, maybe even on tour, which I'm not so psyched about.
speaking of touring, tomorrow Christopher and I board a bus to Eilat, Israel's Atlantic City, along with the rest of the Solanei Tel Aviv chamber orchestra. And their significant others- the whole reason we're all doing this concert is the 3 nights hotel stay, and being fed, and being near the beach. And hopefully getting to scuba dive again in the red sea. I did it for the first time in Dahab, Sinai, last month, and it was so amazing, every time I close my eyes I'm still underwater above the reef, the surface a glimmering roof over my head, oddly shaped and brilliantly colored fish everywhere around and below me. So sad about Dahab. We had such a great time there and truly felt it was the safest, coziest, happiest place. I'll put up pictures of our 3 hour camel ride soon.
Now it's back to Schubert.
love to everyone back home!!!