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Juliet and I got engaged on her birthday,
December 25, 2008! This was during a visit to
Juliet's family in Oregon over the holidays. The low
point of the trip was an 80-mile drive from Portland
to Corvallis which took seven hours due to
severe road conditions resulting from a snow storm.
The lower photo, taken a few days later, shows a
close-up of the engagement ring.
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I conducted Nova Vista Symphony at the
graduation ceremonies for Foothill College on June
27, 2008. I led 30 minutes of music before the
program -- including Cowboys Overture and
Raiders's March by John Williams -- in
addition to the ceremonial Pomp and Circumstance.
Two days later, while attending Peninsula Symphony's
outdoor summer concert, I won the raffle to conduct
Sousa's Stars and Stripes march at the end
of the program.
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I stood in line for three hours to buy an iPhone
on the first day they were released, June 29, 2007.
photos
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On November 10 and 17, 2006 Juliet and I performed
The Swan as a contrabassoon and piano duet at
an HP Symphony concert.
video/audio
YouTube streaming video
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On May 21, 2006 I conducted a very modern
aleatoric piece, K'vakarat by Osvaldo Golijov
for string quartet and cantor at a Redwood Symphony
concert.
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I bought a new car on January 11, 2006, a Honda
Accord V6 coupe, complete with voice-activated
navigation, electronic stability control, warp
drive...
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I conducted members of Nova Vista Symphony in Peter and the Wolf
at Marshall Lane School in
Saratoga, California on April 7, 2005.
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I appeared in costume as guest conductor of Nova
Vista Symphony, leading a performance of Star
Trek Through the Years on January 8, 2005.
photos/video
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I attended "The Official Star Trek Convention"
in Las Vegas on August 2-4, 2002. While there, I got
to sit in the captain's chair on the Enterprise
1701-D bridge at Star Trek: The Experience.
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I organized a group of 23 people to see Star
Wars: Episode II on May 16, 2002, at the Century 22
theater with a digital projector.
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I got a wide-screen TV
on February 22, 2002.
(Sony KP-51HW40, 51-inch, 16×9)
See the
window
shades I built to darken the room for daytime
viewing.
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I conducted Poulenc's Suite Française at
Redwood Symphony's chamber music concert on January
26, 2002.
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I conducted Ravel's Introduction and Allegro
with Suki Russack, harp, at Redwood Symphony's
chamber music concert on January 21, 2001.
video
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The latest Redwood Symphony CD is
available.
(Redwood Recordings, ASND 310009-2)
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I spent the New Year's 2000 holiday with
friends in Orlando.
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My boss and I flew down to Burbank on July 12,
1999 to watch an all-digital projection of Star Wars: Episode I. The image quality was
amazing!
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On June 28, 1999, I performed with members of
the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra on the Elizabethan
Stage in Ashland, Oregon. We also performed
in Dunsmuir, CA.
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The first CD I recorded with Redwood
Symphony is available.
(Redwood Recordings, ASND 310004-2)
audio
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On July 19, 1998, I
celebrated my 36th birthday by visiting
Star Trek:
The Experience in Las Vegas.
Wow--it was wonderful!
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On February 22, 1998, I was one of the four conductors in
Redwood
Symphony's performance of the Ives Symphony No.
4. This was only a small conducting role, but it was
my first conducting performance outside of the
HP Symphony
Orchestra.
photo
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On June 8, 1996, I got to perform with the
Redwood
Symphony in
Davies
Hall, San Francisco--yes, where the
San Francisco
Symphony plays! (We were the guest of the San
Francisco Gay Mens Chorus, which needed an orchestra
to perform Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.)
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