Classically Lake Tahoe
Summer 2018
Exciting news: Matt was selected as a
percussionist for “Classical Tahoe” at Lake Tahoe! In its 7th season, the
Classical Tahoe Orchestra has been expanded this year, mostly adding percussion
& brass. The orchestra brings together “virtuoso musicians [that’s our
boy!] from ensembles such as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Leipzig
Gewandhaus, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony and the LA Philharmonic”
for a three-week festival and institute on the campus of Sierra Nevada College
off the lake in Incline Village NV. Interestingly, clicking on “orchestra” at the
CT website yields a large (and very handsome!) photo of Matt right at the top. My
travel juices started flowing since we’ve never been there. Sitting on the California-Nevada
border, Lake Tahoe is America’s largest “alpine lake” and the 3rd
deepest lake in North America: 22 miles long, 12 miles wide, and 1,645’ at its
deepest; 6,225’ above sea level; surrounded by Sierra Nevada Mountains
including the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics site. The 72-mile shoreline drive is
billed as “The Most Beautiful Drive in America.” Plus Reno, Carson City, &
Virginia City are nearby. We’ve been elsewhere in Northern California,
including Yosemite and Sequoia Nat’l Parks (our “2nd honeymoon” in
1972) and several times in the San Francisco area for vacations and
conventions, but not this region. So we’ll stalk him, as we did when Matt was
at the “Music Academy of the West” in Santa Barbara (1998). Why should he have
all the fun?
This will entail some family reunions:
Marjorie’s cousin Jim, wife Susan, and Susan’s sister Ann will join us
(reprising their participation in our 2015 Andalucia trip); Jim & Susan’s daughter Katherine, husband Mike, and children
Cooper & Kexel live in Walnut Creek CA, not too far away, so we’ll see them;
plus daughter-in-law Anthea and grandsons William & Miles are flying out
toward the end of our stay. This evolved into a longer stay than originally
anticipated, but Marjorie pointed out that some people actually “relax” on
vacation ̶ imagine that!
