205/365

I can't wait to get an iPhone!
I took loads, and they all turned out crap.
But...
this is my hero, Steve Martin, playing banjo with a Bluegrass band at the new Club Nokia in Downtown LA, to promote his new cd of (songs HE wrote) bluegrass music. It was so much fun!

128/365

Heard some glorious music today, particularly "La Noche de los Mayas", by Revueltas (you can listen to a piece of it HERE... give it a couple minutes for the rhythm section, that's the amazing part!).  I've never seen a conductor bounce up and down to the rhythms, getting the musicians to do MORE!  LOUDER! BIGGER!

And to watch someone in an orchestra 'play' a Conch Shell... it was really fantastic.

These are placed all around the Concert Hall; I think it's a lovely idea.

PROGRAM:
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Britten: Violin Concerto (with Midori, violin)
Revueltas: La noche de los mayas

(interesting - listening to it now, it's not quite as interesting as it was seeing it performed live.  Perhaps obvious, but quite clear to me now!)