Unexpected Musician Sightings

[mikeweil]

This morning when I drove 'round the corner for my weekly dance improvisation class at the Frankfurt Music High School, I spotted Hille Perl and Lee Santana, the best viol and lute duet on the early music scene in Germany. Now this might not seem unusual for a music school, but they live 400 miles away and have no teaching appointment here, so ... nice surprise. I wonder what they were up to.

Edited November 8, 2012 by mikeweil

[JSngry]

Shopping for clothes in a color other than black?

Just kidding - all-black clothes have been the prerequisite "hip look" for so long now that when a gig calls for it, I pretty much know it's going to be anything but.

C'mon folks, let the sun shine in. Let there be real colors for a change. Seriously.

[rostasi]

A couple of months ago, I was listening to a live performance

of a work dedicated to John Cage. What was unusual is that it was

a new work composed by George Lewis - mostly anti-Cage

in his recent book A Power Stronger Than Itself....

It was a good work that used a transcribed "Baby" Dodds solo in

various places if I remember correctly. During applause, he surprised

me further by actually being there to accept it. We talked later,

but I didn't have the heart to bring up this paradox that was spinning

around in my brain. A very nice guy.