Summer White Jacket Season

It feels odd to be starting up the orchestra’s summer season only a week after we wrapped up what is officially our “winter season” (despite beginning in fall and ending in early summer,) but that’s the way the calendar fell this year, and we were back at Orchestra Hall this morning, rehearsing with Courtney for our annual parade of free outdoor concerts loosely bunched around Independence Day. These concerts tend to take place mostly in the same few metro-area towns each season – this year’s lineup includes shows in Plymouth and Excelsior, Minnesota and Hudson, Wisconsin, plus a loooong runout down to the college town of Winona in southern MN. The Hudson stop has always been my favorite, partly because we play at the town bandshell on the banks...