Pat: Ciao Marco!
Marco: Greuss dich, Pat! We're in Germany now, didn't you notice!! Ganz luestig!! Ha-ha!
Cristina Zacharias: Ciao bei ragazzi! I'm not quite done with Italy yet, either.
John Abberger: Gruess Gott!
P: Yeah, there have been lots of changes lately.
C: Did you hear who the new triangle player is? Herr Doktor Jehl!
J: Herr Doktor Jehl is playing the triangle in Haydn's Seasons?
C: Yep, he had an initiation lesson today with Dave Campion, the tympanist.
P: Dr. Jehl has kept this festival going for all those years!
M: We had another initiation today, the relief of lower temperatures here in Bavaria. Italy was HOT!
J: Yeah, it was 7 degrees when we headed out for the Team Tafelmusik run this morning at 6:40... that's 6:40 am..
P: How was the turnout this morning? I was happily snoozing away about then...
J: We were five committed runners...
M:
It was hard to get started today without Rossini... In Rieti, in the
piazza where we started each run, Rossini's La Gazza Ladra was playing
24/7.
Dominic Teresi: We've added a new Italian to the band, the other Marco, now in the bass section.
P: And we have some new wind players, too.
D: Yeah, Anna Marsh is playing second bassoon, now, and she was at Tafelmusik's Baroque Summer Institute a few years ago.
J: We're also welcoming back our friends Chris Krueger, flute, and Jane Booth, clarinet...
C: And Steve Marvin and René Schiffer...
J: And Bruno Weil is again bringing us into new territory with Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.
C: Despite all the changes, Irsee is really a home away from home, as we've been coming here for...
J: 17 years!
P: The very first Klang und Raum at Irsee was the first date I ever played with Tafelmusik in 1993.
M: You mean in 1893? Ganz luestig!! Ha-ha!!
D: Ho-ho!!
J: Hee-hee!
C: Heh-heh!
und so weiter... (and so on...)