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Bach Would Be So Pissed…
On Saturday, at the Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle, there will be performances of all six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello by Bach. Some of the best cellists in the Northwest will be playing. Among (and in contrast with) them, I’m playing the Courante from the second suite (in d minor). This is going to be my first major public solo ( Read more... ) -
To whom it may interest
I have three very nondescript works (nothing fancy) as part of UPS's Junior Review gallery, which runs until the 7th of March. -
Ragtime
Alright, this seems as appropriate a place to start looking as I have available, and I figure I should probably start early to avoid stress all around.
So here’s the deal: I’m playing cello in the pit orchestra of Ragtime: The Musical, which is playing at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse. However, I won’t be able to play on Sunday the 21st of May, and ( Read more... ) -
Benavides
I never knew very much about my mom’s side of the family, partly because they’re all in Peru, and so I never see them (except that once). I would strongly advise against reading the convoluted excuses for paragraphs below.
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Compliment
I was at a bank earlier, and one of the tellers told me I look like John Lennon. Now, personally, I think I look about as much like John Lennon as Matt looks like Bob Dylan (and probably less so), but that doesn’t stop me from being flattered.
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Wait…what?
From Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventures of Ideas:
§9. Objects.-The process of experiencing is constituted by the reception of entities, whose being is antecedent to that process, into the complex fact which is that process itself. These antecedent entities, thus received as factors into the process of experiencing, are termed ‘objects’ for that ( Read more... ) -
Sick Again
Damn that brother of mine; I really should give him syphilis. -
Ouch
This is what I get for taking on an intense gig like this without getting ready for it.
One more day…
