via Midland Daily News
Bohuslav Rattay, guest conductor for Saturday night's Midland Symphony Orchestra concert, had just celebrated a milestone. "Today is the day I applied for a U.S. passport," he said in a phone interview from Muncie, Ind., this week. "I just got back from the post office." The Czech-born Rattay recently became a U.S. citizen and said the process of applying for a passport was "very painless." He currently is artistic director of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and is director of orchestras at Ball State University in Muncie. He also is music director of the Lake Charles Symphony in Louisiana, a smaller organization. "For me, it's a beautiful getaway to a warmer climate," Rattay said of the Lake Charles post. He also is in the running for conducting posts in Duluth, Minn. and Hilton Head Island, S.C. "Those are good things happening," he said. "Knowing that people like what I do is exciting and quite a special feeling."
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