Chapter 25 The next two months were hectic. I conducted the Philharmonic spring concert and then the children’s camp concert, which made almost twenty-five-thousand for the camp. Both concerts got rave reviews and everyone seemed quite happy with them. I’d already started planning the next year, of which I already had the programs in my mind for the first two concerts. There would be a new work on the fall concert and another soloist for the spring. I knew who I wanted to present…Now to find out if she was available. I signed my contract with the university and I sat for many hours with Alan to find out where the university orchestra was headed and what I should be teaching. I planned what their first concert would be, too, which would include Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. I hoped the

