DVDS ARE READY!

Rejoice, NYSMFers around the world! The DVDs for Sessions 2 and 3 of NYSMF 2006 are ready! I will be stuffing DVD cases, envelopes, inserts, etc., and making a trip to the post office this weekend with your loot.

Thanks for your patience. I've enjoyed it quite a bit, even though I have tons of other stuff to cover for NYSMF. For example:

1. Dr. Sherrie Maricle is taking her quintet, FIVE PLAY, on tour to Japan next week! She is a terrific supporter of NYSMF, both she and the NY Pops Orchestra, and she will graciously bring along some NYSMF publicity to give away during her Japanese concert tour. Hopefully we'll be brushing up on our Japanese language skills next summer as a result! (Thanks Sherrie!)
2. The 2007 NYSMF Brochure is already in production. Look for it in your mailboxes soon, and please pass it along to any friends, family members, relatives, or even strangers who seem they would benefit from coming to a great summer music program. People just like you. ;D
3. NYSMF CD production is approaching full swing as well. My thanks to Terry Kirchsengessenwassermusikoboisita for all of his hard work in making sure we had professional-quality recordings available for all of us to enjoy.
4. NYSMF WEBSITE Updates. Yup, although the site is still in great shape, that doesn't mean it couldn't stand a bit of reogranization. We do need some changes so that it will be easier to navigate for you and for all future campers, plus make it easy enough that a parent can use it. (Ouch!) Nothing has been completed yet, other than all the photos and stuff, but dang.

My own life is finally starting to resemble "normal". I went on my first "after-camp" audition today, a commercial for Blue Cross, and got to perform four or five different variations on camera. Now, I know most of you would then ask, "when will you know if you got it?" To which I would reply, "If I got ... what?"

That's not being snotty, really! One of the most important tools of my profession - acting - is the ability to prepare, work, and perform to the best of my skills for an audition, and then to forget completely about it.

That's not to say it isn't a fun and exciting process. But when you go on fifty to a hundred auditions a year, it's not very good for your blood pressure to obsess about every single one. And you know me, I don't like to pump up the tension factor for any reason. Except, perhaps, on Pizza Night.

Stay tuned for your DVD and CDs in the mail soon!

--keisuke
The NYSMF version of Lt. Uhura
"Hailing Frequencies Open ... ouch! It's hailing outside!"