Ever thought about what it takes to play a woodwind instrument 9,000-plus feet above sea level? Woodwind professor Wendy Rolfe writes in from Ecuador. —Magen
Teatro Sucre, in the Centro section of Quito
In the first week of June, flutists from two hemispheres gathered in Quito, Ecuador, to flute in the clouds at the “II Convencion Internacional de Flautistas en el Centro del Mundo”. The Convencion was sponsored by the Orquesta de Camara “Luciano Carrera”. Its original incarnation was nineteen years ago, and I was fortunate to be invited back for the fifth time this year.