I remember finding my way to your office in Morrison to do an interview with you for the SFEMS newsletter back when Magnificat had just been born, before we were presenting our own concerts. Magnificat was serving as the pit orchestra for your production of Ulisse and you observed that so many of those notes that adorned typical productions of Monteverdi’s operas were by Raymond Leppard. But it wasn’t the insertion of extraneous music that was a problem – it was the particular music that was inserted!

It was a memorable production – in fact just the other day I was recalling it with another one of the musicians who had played. Working with you on Ulisse was in many ways the primary catalyst for launching Magnificat’s first season in 1992 and the rest, as they say, is history. Thank you!