“We didn’t organize this in advance, but we think the composer might be here. Martin, if you are here, can you…ah, raise your hand?”
Playing a new work for a composer can be a nerve-jangling experience. But playing a ten-year-old work, which has been played many, many times all over the world, for a composer who [...]
As a proud Queenslander myself, I found this exchange between Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and George Bush (during Rudd’s first visit to the US) rather, well, interesting:
PRIME MINISTER RUDD: Mr. President, you said that you had a warm regard for me because, from a Texan point of view, you found me to be [...]
Saturday afternoon facebook updates, real and (mostly) imagined:
Timothy is hanging with 400 old people in Arlington VA, hoping for some met opera fireworks. 11:37am
…..hasn’t seen so many old people in a movie theater since Driving Miss Daisy. 12:03pm
…..feels nervous for Susan Graham, who looks uncomfortable as broadcast host and has the sexy and confident Natalie [...]
