Submitted by Sderci on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 11:42
Last night was quite a rush! The CSO and Redmoon Theater collaborated to put on a show called Mercury Soul. This show has been performed elsewhere before (including Berlin and San Francisco), but this was the first time for Chicago, and my first time as a participant. You can check out my pictures from last night at the following link:
Mercury Soul gallery
Submitted by Sderci on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 04:49
It's been quite a quarter since my last entry, from the almost-mystical date of Oct. 10, '10! Just 4 days before, I had won a job in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was a strange day, one that I spent mostly alone, and one that's had a major effect on all of our days since then. And now finally, Akiko and I will be moving to LA once I join them as First Associate Concertmaster on the equally auspicious date of July 4.
Submitted by Sderci on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 23:00
was one nickname for the late George Plimpton, journalist extraordinaire who wrangled major-league experience in a number of fields: boxing, baseball, football, and even music! Plimpton joined the percussion section of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein for one month, then wrote about his experience. Here's an excerpt from a Time Magazine interview about that month:
