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HAPPY NEW YEAR! I’ve never made much of the changing of a number—the new year begins in September for me. First I was a student and of course that meant school beginning in September. San Jose Symphony (RIP) always began the new season in September. So does Opera San José. Then I had kids and [...]

Someone landed at my other site because he or she did a search on the authors among us. I was curious how that got the person to my site so I googled as well. Ah-hah! It’s a goofy poem I wrote. I’ll post it here, just so you can see what the heck I was [...]

The concerts listed here include a trio of two oboes and English horn (Beethoven: Variations on Mozart’s “La Ci Darem” from Don Giovanni). You might want to check the link out! Robin May and Peter Lemberg are on oboe, and James Matheson is on English horn.

… we musicians need help understanding why people behave the way they do at concerts. Sometimes they are noisy and we are befuddled. Sometimes they answer cell phones or their watches go off and they continue to let them beep. Sometimes they don’t act the way we think they should and that bugs us. And [...]

ACB wrote to say she did the face recognition thing, and I will admit to jealousy. I did it again with another couple of pictures. So far, I’m mostly male. There you go. Danielle (correction: DANIEL. Sorry! I guess I wanted to at least make him a bit more feminine.) Radcliffe. Areil Sharon. And more. [...]

So … I look like Ella Fitzgerald? I can’t imagine that to be true, but some face recognition software suggests that is one face that is similar to mine. The first face it suggested was some man. Sigh. But I’ll take Ella any day. Try it out for yourself. Here’s the picture I used: … [...]

We went on a mini-vacation (one overnight) to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Yep. You read that right … THIRTY years, come this January 3rd. It was an infant wedding of course. ;-) We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium today, and I can do without any new-agey-sounds-like-good-under-water music for a good long time! But [...]

I responded to both ACB and TD who had left me nice messages on my Woo Hoo post. But since they may not read that, here it is again: Thanks to both ACB and TD! It has, indeed, been a wonderful non-Nut few days. Of course when I reached #14 I realized I could easily [...]

… just go buy A Toolbox Christmas. You won’t get the entire Nutcracker, but you’ll get the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Isn’t that enough? You can hear a few short samples of the music, and you can see the complete playlist. FIrst spotted via The Well-Tempered Blog. Or shoot … just go out [...]