16th WMC

Arrived at Amsterdam after a 13 hour flight and took a 3 hour bus trip to reach our lodging area. Finally there's a BED to lie on!

Back to the same lodging 4 years ago, and the landlady still remembers me! Amazing!

This is the rehearsal place, called wielderhoes, provides us with most of the infrastructure, like practice and dining areas, and percussion instruments.
Rehearsals begun and it's a fair bit of work for me.

After concert reflections

Just back from the SYF presentation concert, must say AJC band gave me the best impression of all. NJC picked pieces which were more mature and advanced but didn't play as smoothly as AJC. Actually all the bands did pretty good(obviously...).

I think the kids I have are like light-years apart. Given their current attitude, which is very much inclined to sleeping and playing, it's going to be a long way.

Let's start with rhythm and intonation.