Chaos at EIU

Hey gang, hoping I'll have more pictures soon, but in the meantime, I'll tell you a little about the performance at Eastern Illinois University with Dr. Milt Allen and the Wind Symphony...

They performed all five sketches of Watercolors (making it the Midwestern Premiere!), as well as Chaos Theory with me. The band sounded really good and they were great to work with. The only real snag of the weekend occurred Sunday morning when I realized that I'd left my stage clothes hanging on the doorknob in Chicago... all I had were the clothes I'd come with, which meant that my only pair of pants were my "writing pants" -- the most comfortable, most faded, and most torn and hole-y jeans that I own... Charleston is not a shopper's paradise on Sunday morning, so it was time to improvise... with grad assistant Tim Schmidt's help, Milt and I raided the marching band's storage. Once I'd found my size 42 Long, I was good to go... hey, if Jimi Hendrix did it, so could I... right?!


pictured: Jackie, Dr. Milt Allen, Jim (in concert attire), and Elizabeth

(Oh, and for those of you that might be particularly observant, YES, I am holding that Jackson V I'd written about a few months ago...)