Interlude: No Narration, Please!

A friend pointed out this comic today, and it offered a nice interlude to what had become a rather monotonous day of looking through various percussion scores for new literature to perform. This particular comic has to be one of the best representations of shopping for classical music I have ever seen. Truly, it's nearly impossible to find a good recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf without narrator! I have approximately five different versions, and the only one I have without narrator is Leonard Bernstein/NY Philharmonic (SMK 47596). Kudos to Chris Onstad, the author of Achewood, for bringing us this comic!

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Favorite Pianist

Check out this picture of Skelly the pianist jamming out to some tunes of the 1800's. He's got a new gig at a haunted house out in the western suburbs of Chicago, and I'm a pretty big fan of his. Rumor is that he also knew Scott Joplin.

Happy Halloween!

Drums on the Brain

The CSO had this very interesting banner ad on the Chicago Tribune website. Seems like someone enjoyed the concert enough to have drumming on their brain! Click on the link to enlarge it.

My New Publicity Photos

Here's my new publicity photos. I'm having a hard time finding auditions, mostly because I'm awake at night and have a night job that requires me to visit people at night and give them a bit of a scare. However, it's just a job, and I'm just doing it to make ends meet until I can get more auditions. My musical interests are the Top 40 hits of 1253CE (it's tough to find them in print these days).