Tour Diary

This weekend was a busy one for Tempo del Fuoco.  We kicked off our week long tour with two back to back concerts at The University of Connecticut's Community School of the Arts and The Suzuki Music School of Westport.  Both programs were our hour long/no intermission programs.  The turn out to both concerts were quite good for weekend afternoon faculty recitals. Saturday at UConn Sarah arrived to my place around 12 in the afternoon.  Fresh from our rehearsal last weekend, we both deci Read More

When I was in college, I always found it interesting how people prepare for their concerts and then what happens while being out on tour.  While I've provided brief summaries of Tempo del Fuoco performances/tours before, I've decided to get a little deeper into preparing for concerts as well as what goes on while we go out on tour. In this first post I'll speak briefly about how I prepare for concerts with TdF.  The first thing I should note is that Sarah and I have been playing some of th Read More

Friday the 26th was Tempo del Fuoco's concert at Music Mountain.  For those who don't know, Music Mountain is located out near Torrington, which is in the northwest corner of Connecticut.  Also, for those who don't know, Music Mountain is not accessible by a major highway, so Sarah and I left for our 8pm concert at around 3 in the afternoon.  Looking on Google Maps, my house to Music Mountain is about an hour and a half drive, except if we left my place in Manchester to be there for 7, we'd b Read More