I'm freakin' awesome.

[GottaHavePride]

So it looks like Wichita Grand Opera is going to let me conduct a few things on their season-finale concert to see how good a conductor I am. Awesome.

And while I was talking to WGO's President/CEO he asked if OU's Opera Department would be interested in a workshop and collaborative staging of The Pirates of Penzance next spring/summer. So I'll see if our department goes for that.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

WTG, you!!!

[Hamhock]

conductor? don't you just wave your arms around to the beat of the rhythm?

how hard can it be?

[Boomer.....]

Congrats!

[GottaHavePride]

conductor? don't you just wave your arms around to the beat of the rhythm?

how hard can it be?

Surprisingly, pretty hard. Makes your shoulders burn something fierce. ;)

[King Crimson]

that's pretty cool, GHP.

[Fugue]

That's Awesome.

Teh Maestro

[colleyvillesooner]

way to go!

[TUSooner]

WAY.
TO.
GO.

[Mjcpr]

Are we going to have to refer to you as Maestro all the time now?

[Widescreen]

Geez, you must be amazing!

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14765

;)

Seriously, that is cool. Way to go you.

[GottaHavePride]

Heh. Slightly tempering the awesomeness is the realization that I left my cell phone charger in the hotel in Fort Worth on Tuesday. Man, all this traveling and that's the first thing I have ever left in a hotel anywhere. Guess it's time to go buy a new one.

(I called the hotel - they're looking for it, but didn't see one matching my description at first glance.)

[mdklatt]

So it looks like Wichita Grand Opera is going to let me conduct a few things on their season-finale concert to see how good a conductor I am. Awesome.


I refuse to call you Maestro.

[GottaHavePride]

That's ok. I only demand that when I'm wearing the wig and white gloves.

http://jenn98.com/bugs/images/leopold.jpg

[Soonerus]

Congrats GHP, you deserve it...

[Tailwind]

Good going! Hope they like your work.

[Newbomb Turk]

WTG GHP!

:)

[BajaOklahoma]

Congrats!

[royalfan5]

Congrats. Today Wichita, Tomorrow Omaha

[SoonerBorn68]

Yay GHP!

[oumartin]

with the title of this thread do your shoulders hurt from conducting or patting yourself on the back? ;)

[nmsoonergirl]

That is completely awesome. You are cool!!!!

[Suerreal]

Congratulations, GHP! That really is pretty awesome. You rock. In a classical way, of course...

[Frozen Sooner]

So it looks like Wichita Grand Opera is going to let me conduct a few things on their season-finale concert to see how good a conductor I am. Awesome.

And while I was talking to WGO's President/CEO he asked if OU's Opera Department would be interested in a workshop and collaborative staging of The Pirates of Penzance next spring/summer. So I'll see if our department goes for that.


You, sir, are the model of a modern major general.

[PhxSooner]

That's ok. I only demand that when I'm wearing the wig and white gloves.

http://jenn98.com/bugs/images/leopold.jpg
Leopold!

That's great, GHP. Good luck!

[GottaHavePride]

Kick ***!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74Bk3uvGj4

[GottaHavePride]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTydGEYdVbE&mode=related&search=

[GottaHavePride]

http://animation.videosift.com/video/LEOPOLD-Long-Haired-Hare-Bugs-Bunny

[Okla-homey]

can you make them play a few bars of Boomer Sooner during the overture?

[OUinFLA]

Congrats !

I always wanted to be a conductor when I was growing up, but Amtrack had a hiring freeze when I was old enough to apply, and then my career path changed.

[Beef]

Roadtrip to Wichitittay!
Congrats, GHP.

[GottaHavePride]

Congrats !

I always wanted to be a conductor when I was growing up, but Amtrack had a hiring freeze when I was old enough to apply, and then my career path changed.

I knew a guy that got hit by lightning once. They said he would have died if he hadn't been such a poor conductor.

[Frozen Sooner]

So, hey, when you're up in the Tittay, stop by some Foot Locker and say Hi to my loser older brother. Last I heard, he was managing one down there.

[GottaHavePride]

Awesomeness update:

So, it's definitely on. Monday morning the guy at WGO is giving me a key and desk to use for the week so I can put music together, contract musicians, and so on, then I'll be rehearsing and conducting a substantial part of the concert on June 2nd.

and then he says after that - assuming we still like working with each other after the concert - he wants to have lunch with me and talk about the possibility of me moving back to Wichita and having a job with them on a more permanent basis.

WOO!

[King Crimson]

Awesomeness update:

So, it's definitely on. Monday morning the guy at WGO is giving me a key and desk to use for the week so I can put music together, contract musicians, and so on, then I'll be rehearsing and conducting a substantial part of the concert on June 2nd.

and then he says after that - assuming we still like working with each other after the concert - he wants to have lunch with me and talk about the possibility of me moving back to Wichita and having a job with them on a more permanent basis.

WOO!


that's good news, g.

[Newbomb Turk]

Awesomeness update:

So, it's definitely on. Monday morning the guy at WGO is giving me a key and desk to use for the week so I can put music together, contract musicians, and so on, then I'll be rehearsing and conducting a substantial part of the concert on June 2nd.

tell the WGO guy you want Memorial Day off.



;)

[GottaHavePride]

Heh. Oddly, Memorial Day has never been that big a day for me. (As far as the outdoor boozin' and partyin' aspect, anyway. The memorializing part is a perfectly big deal.)

I'm not that much an outdoor recreation type. (Well, summertime anyway. I think I would have a stupid good time on a ski trip.) Give me a beer and something off the grill that evening and I'll be happy.

[OCUDad]

Have you purchased a new baton and case yet?

BTW... WTG, GHP.

[Widescreen]

GHP, I have visions of you as bugs bunny conducting in place of leopold stokowski. Make the visiting opera singer bring down the place.

[GottaHavePride]

Dude, there's a couple of good opportunities for that in the stuff I'm conducting. ;)