Apparently I choose my friends according to very specific criteria.
In response to my tagging entreaty from the other day, both Ms ACB and Mr Tonic Blotter found exactly the same book within reach of their blogging posts, In Defense of Food - an Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. Interestingly, the sentences that each quoted differed slightly, somewhat [...]
Back at DePauw University for our last of four visits, we took part in Carlos Carrillo’s Microfestival, the idea of which was to unite students and teachers for a week of concerts. The programming centered on works from the last thirty years, including music by Takemitsu, Crumb, Andriessen, Tom Albert, and Chen Yi (who had [...]
(This is a continuation of Perpetual Students.)
Another unique UMich residency activity was coaching two of the University of Michigan’s student orchestras.
(A personal digression: Orchestras can be savage beasts: impatient, unruly, defensive, arrogant. I have seen them turn conductors into aggressive ring-leaders, wielding batons only for protection from potential physical, musical or psychological harm. It is [...]
