Last week my wife, Marsha and I reconnected with the New Hampshire Music Festival where I am Conductor Laureate. It was so great to make music again with my friends in the orchestra. As always, they played beautifully and it seemed like it was just yesterday when we last were together. Jay Buckley, the Festival’s treasurer was away on a trip to Iceland and he kindly made his lovely home on Lake Winona available to us. We had a wonderful time and it was my first chance to conduct Ginestera’s Variaciones Concertantes and De Falla’s El Amor Brujo, so the week had a nice balance of peaceful relaxation at the lake and new musical discovery. Bravo to our New Hampshire friends!!