Big orchestras, big headaches

The last two months of the symphony season were filled with large scale orchestras. Perhaps that is part of my large scale headaches from the past two months. In all honesty, I'm not quite sure what we were thinking when we scheduled these concerts in rapid succession. For the three magical concerts we managed to squeeze well over a hundred performers on stage. While not a Mahler size feat, the sight was still impressive.

Here the youth orchestra performs with the symphony during a subscription concert. Yes, there were 20 cellists on stage!

Here the three youth orchestras combined for the finale to the Spring Youth Orchestra Concert. Yes, that's three conductors, three separate conductors, and three levels of stage. In the final feat of the season (that I don't have a picture of) we placed an 86 piece orchestra on stage with a 125 voice choir. Crazy fun stuff. :)