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Next year I am required to perform in a recital at UCSC. I’m fine with that. I’d be happy to be in one every year, in fact. I like playing chamber music, and recitals keep me working. Hard. But planning? Ugh. I absolutely hate planning! To begin with some of the adjunct faculty decided we’d [...]

These days, listening to music means hearing the gorgeous and inexhaustible power of strings, winds, brass, and percussion. If I want to hear the sound of guitar and drums, these days I simply play a show with my band. -Carlos D of Interpol (read here) —–