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Recent personal highlights

 

  • 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.
  • I stood in line for three hours to buy an iPhone on the first day they were released, June 29, 2007.
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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.
  • I bought a new car on January 11, 2006, a Honda Accord V6 coupe, complete with voice-activated navigation, electronic stability control, warp drive...
  • I conducted members of Nova Vista Symphony in Peter and the Wolf at Marshall Lane School in Saratoga, California on April 7, 2005.
  • I appeared in costume as guest conductor of Nova Vista Symphony, leading a performance of Star Trek Through the Years on January 8, 2005.
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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.
George on the 1701-D Bridge
  • 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.
 
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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!
 
  • 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.
  • The first CD I recorded with Redwood Symphony is available.  (Redwood Recordings, ASND 310004-2)
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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.
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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.)