Casey Gsell

Here’s an old review from Tom Johnson, a music reviewer who wrote for the Village Voice for years, often writing about concerts that wouldn’t have been covered otherwise.  While classical music reviews tend to be ephemeral and largely forgotten over time (except by diligent phd candidates), this one seems to reappear over time.  Maybe sometimes we need that reminder to get back to “just pure natural music.”

Here you can check out the video of Yoko Ono reading a few pieces from Grapefruit, the book that contains her “Tape Piece III.”

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Yoko Ono’s Snow

Tom Johnson

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I work only about 45 minutes away from this beautiful beach!  How lucky!  We went hiking here on our day off.

I’m not sure how exactly ZeFrank would be catagorized.  He’s a new type of artist who takes advantage of the internet and its capability, especially in terms to interacting and collaborating with others (for his own description, check out his TED 2004 talk.  If you haven’t seen any of the TED talks online, for shame!).  There’s tons of fun stuff on his website, and his “The Show” was enormously popular when it aired online (you can still watch it).  Recently, he posted some questions about creating work for an audience:

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Few realize what a throne of passion each musical movement is.

                                                                               — Beethoven

in Brazil with Rob from San Francisco Symphony.

Note: I highly recommend taking any gig that includes living in a fabulous Brazilian resort.  Here’s some Brazilian desserts.  As Dave said, we were never more than 150 feet away from a flan at any time.