Slooterdam Nation

GOTHAM WIND SYMPHONY RELEASES NEW CD!

2007-03-20T16:15:00.000-04:00

The GWS, conducted by MC has just released their second CD "American Gotham"! This project copiles 4 premier recordings of original works for 45-piece wind band by NYC jazz composers. The pieces are:

Northwest Suite- Thad Jones
Road Trip- Mike Holober
Prelude (To A Minor Insensitivity)- James Chirillo
Eventuations- Scott Robinson(this piece also utilizes the LaGuardia HS Jazz Band!)

There are some rare, beautiful and crazy sounds on this thing. The disc is only available through this link HERE.

Then, click on "Artistshare", click on "American Gotham" and choose your level.
Thanks for your support!

MC Quintet in Bayonne!

2007-03-20T15:42:00.000-04:00

The new Mike Christianson Quintet will make their debut as follows:

Friday, April 27th from 10PM-1AM
at:
The Arts Factory Theater (Cabaret Bar)
280 Ave. E
Bayonne, NJ 07002
ph: 201-436-7600
Directions

me- Trombone
John Bailey- Trumpet
James Chirillo- Guitar
Bill Moring- Bass
Tim Horner- Drums

Should be swinging, plungers will be brandished!

Judy Barnett at Iridium

2007-03-20T15:29:00.000-04:00

Judy Barnett CD release party. Wednesday March 28.
Iridium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway (at 51st) NYC
sets @ 8 & 10PM

Judy Barnett-Vocals
Bud Burridge- Trumpet/Arranger
me- Trombone
Aaron Heick- Alto Sax
Joel Frahm- Tenor Sax
Ted Kooshian- Piano
Tom Hubbard- Bass
Joe Ascione- Drums

Come by and check it out.

MC in Jazz Vespers!

2007-01-19T08:58:00.000-05:00

Come hear Mike Christianson + Trio at a Jazz Vespers service.

Sunday, February 11 5PM
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
233 S. Highwood Ave.
Glen Rock, NJ 07452
Phone: 201-444-6598
Free

MC- Trombone, Tuba, Didgeridoo
Scott Robinson- Contra-Alto Clarinet, Tenor
James Chirillo- Guitar (NOT banjo)
Klaus Suonsaari- Drums

MORE McG!

2007-01-19T08:48:00.000-05:00

Come hear...
The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra
Featuring Pete’s work as jazz composer/arranger (former BMI student of Bob Brookmeyer), trombonist, and jazz vocalist (past semi-finalist of the Thelonious Monk competition). After years as a sideman, having performed with people such as Maria Schneider, the Woody Herman Big Band, and Dave Pietro, and having co-lead several other projects, Pete now steps out in front of his own 16-piece modern jazz group. The great musicians/soloists of the band are some of New York’s very best.

Saxes: Dave Pietro, Steve Kenyon, Tom Christensen,
Dan Pratt, and Dave Riekenberg

Trumpets: Tony Kadleck, Jon Owens, Bill Mobley, Chris Rogers

Trombones: Bruce Eidem, Mike Christianson, Steve Armour, Jeff Nelson

Rhythm: Mike Holober – piano, Andy Eulau – bass, Scott Neumann –drums

Tuesday, January 23rd at...
“The Garage” Restaurant/Jazz Club
99 7th Ave. South, NYC at Sheridan Sq./Greenwich Village
Sets at: 7pm and 8:45
No cover charge – great food too!
Hope to see you there.

Fresh off of laying down some swinging tracks, the band returns to throw down LIVE!
MC

PULSEmas!

2006-12-12T18:37:00.000-05:00

PULSE!
presents

THE ELOQUENT LIGHT
music inspired by photography

Sunday, 17 December 2006
Bowery Poetry Club
(308 Bowery btw Houston & Bleecker)
8:00 PM. $10.

featuring

John McNeil, trumpet
Pete McCann, guitar

with

Dan Willis, reeds
Ben Kono, reeds
Lis Rubard, horn
Mike Christianson, tuba
Tom Beckham, percussion
Mike Eckroth, keyboard
Mark Feldman, violin
Sarah Bernstein, violin
Frank Foerster, viola
Akua Dixon, cello

• • •

MUSIC BY PULSE

Darcy James Argue

Jamie Begian

Joseph C Phillips Jr

JC Sanford

Joshua Shneider

Yumiko Sunami

• • •

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Secret Society Hit!

2006-11-28T15:14:00.000-05:00

This is some great music written by an exciting, young (they're all young to me, practically) composer: Darcy james Argue. So instead of working with my normal Canadian genius, Martin Short, I'll be with another, Darcy.

Secret Society @ Bowery Poetry Club, 30 Nov 2006

REEDS
Aaron Irwin
Rob Wilkerson
Sam Sadigursky
Mark Small
Josh Sinton
TRUMPETS
Jacob Wick
André Canniere
James De La Garza
Tom Goehring
Dave Rezek
TROMBONES
Mark Patterson
Ryan Keberle
James Hirschfeld
Mike Christianson
RHYTHM
Sebastian Noelle, guitar
Mike Holober, keyboards
Matt Clohesy, bass
Kendrick Scott, drums
COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, RINGLEADER
Darcy James Argue
Thursday, 30 November 2006. Bowery Poetry Club. 10 PM. $12 Cover.

McG Jazz Orchestra makes triumphant return!

2006-11-09T11:16:00.000-05:00

Come hear...
The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra
Featuring Pete’s work as jazz composer/arranger (former BMI student of Bob Brookmeyer), trombonist, and jazz vocalist (past semi-finalist of the Thelonious Monk competition). After years as a sideman, having performed with people such as Maria Schneider, the Woody Herman Big Band, and Jimmy Heath, and having co-lead several other projects, Pete now steps out in front of his own 16-piece modern jazz group. The great musicians/soloists of the band are some of New York’s very best. They are:

Saxes: Dave Pietro, Charles Pillow, Tom Christensen,
Jason Rigby, and Dave Riekenberg

Trumpets: Tony Kadleck, Jon Owens, Bill Mobley, Chris Rogers

Trombones: Bruce Eidem, Mike Christianson, Steve Armour, Jeff Nelson

Rhythm: Mike Holober – piano, Andy Eulau – bass, Scott Neumann –drums

Tuesday, November 21st
“The Garage” Restaurant/Jazz Club
99 7th Ave. South, NYC at Sheridan Sq./Greenwich Village
Sets at: 7pm and 8:45
No cover charge – great food too!
Hope to see you there.

Fresh off of laying down some swinging tracks, the band returns to throw down LIVE!
MC

Mozart Anniversary Concert

2006-11-09T11:10:00.001-05:00

All,
I am playing in this "Period instrument" affair. We will be wailing on very old axes, and at A=430 as well! Check it out!
St Thomas is at 5th Ave & 53rd St, NYC.
MC

- Tuesday, 14 November 2006 at 7:30 PM -

Mozart Anniversary Concert
Vesperae solennes de confessore
Exsultate, jubilate
Ave verum corpus
Missa in C “Coronation Mass”

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
with Concert Royal
John Scott, Conductor
Jolle Greenleaf, Soprano
Malin Fritz, Alto
Alan Bennett, Tenor
Christopheren Nomura, Bass

MOZART ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM

Tuesday, 14 November at 7:30 PM
Friends of Music (Patron and above) reception at 9:15 PM

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with Concert Royal

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, the Saint Thomas Choir and soloists will perform some of the most beautiful and moving of Mozart’s sacred choral works.

Vesperae solennes de confessore, the Solemn Vespers, was written in 1780. The composition transcends the traditions of Salzburg church music in its richness and depth, multiplicity of ideas and artful inventiveness. Exsultate, jubilate, a soprano solo motet, transports us into a sweeping exuberance, particularly in the closing “Alleluia.” Ave verum corpus, a mere forty-six bars of music, is remarkable for its compactness and apparent simplicity. In its serenity, it resembles parts of Mozart’s Requiem, composed in the same year – the last year of his life.

Missa in C, K. 317 “Coronation Mass,” Mozart’s Mass in C Major, was written in 1778, originally for Easter Sunday. It acquired its nickname when performed for the coronation of Leopold II in 1791. At the time, the Archbishop insisted on strict rules for liturgical music. The complete mass, with soloists, chorus and orchestra, in a work suitable for Salzburg’s massive cathedral and written in a style appropriate to the splendor and joy of Easter Sunday, was to be performed in less than forty-five minutes. Mozart managed to do it in less than thirty. The “Coronation Mass” sparkles with bright orchestral colors, lively choral textures and a sublime soprano aria for the “Agnus Dei.”

A reception for Friends of Music (Patrons and above) will follow the concert, welcoming new friends and old, along with a special birthday toast to Mozart from Maestro John Scott.

How to Order Tickets

Tickets for all concerts are on sale now! Seating availability is subject to prior sale. Friends of Music orders are filled first, before those of the general public, by donor level and date received.

Online: You may fill out your order online.

By Mail: Please send completed order form with your payment to:
Saint Thomas Church Concert Series,
One West 53rd Street, NY, NY 10019.

By Fax: Please fax completed order form to (212) 977-6582.

Email questions to Concerts@SaintThomasChurch.org

Brookmeyer Does It Again

2006-10-26T00:56:00.000-04:00

Bob Brookmeyer's new Big band CD; Spirit Music is now available! It is evidence of what happens when an experienced, discerning, restlessly creative, soulful musician writes for group he knows and loves... beauty. I know of no better example of how to lead your trombone-playing-composing life than this. Purchase. Use handy link. Dig. Deep.
MC

Pittsburgh Collective Live in NYC!

2006-10-03T21:57:00.000-04:00

Good people,
I would like to highly recommend this event! This music is unlike anything else I know of and it embraces trombones with love! David Sanford is an old college buddy of mine (excellent bass trombonist) who is deservedly having success as a composer. Check it out!

MC

MUSIC OF DAVID SANFORD

with THE PITTSBURGH COLLECTIVE and MERIDIAN ARTS
ENSEMBLE

A stunning array of New York’s cutting edge musicians
join forces to present the ground breaking and
provocatively concise music of David Sanford.

Performers: Tony Kadleck, Dave Ballou, Sycil Mathai,
Jon Nelson, Wayne DuMaine, Brian McWhorter, Dan
Grabois, Mike Christianson, Josh Roseman, Tim
Sessions, Ben Herrington, Ray Stewart, Ted Levine,
Anthony Barba, John O’Gallagher, Dave Pietro, Brad
Hubbard, Geoff Burleson, Dave Fabris, Dave Phillips,
Theo Moore, John Ferrari

Sunday, October 8th, 6:00 pm

Pre-Concert discussion with David Sanford, Dave
Douglas, Dave Ballou, and others – 3:30 pm

Concert – 8:00pm

At the Yamaha Artists Services Center
689 5th Avenue, 3rd floor

Concert admission is $10

Mozart Requiem on old axes:

2006-09-08T00:06:00.000-04:00

Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626
Sunday at 11am. St. Bartholomew’s Choir.
William K. Trafka, conductor

On this weekend, the fifth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, we offer music from Mozart’s great Requiem sung in memory of those who perished in the violence of that day.

I will be playing my old, low pitch (A=430) teeny-bore trombone in this perfomance on Sunday 9/10 at 11AM along with an entire orchestra of "period instrumentalists". It's a very interesting sound if you haven't heard it before.

St. Bartholomew’s Church
Park Ave at 51st St
New York City
Mailing Address
109 East 50th St
New York, NY 10022

Fame Becomes Others, Not Me

2006-09-07T23:54:00.000-04:00

Started the new DELIGHTFUL show: "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me"! I have steady gainful employment for the immediate future! The tunes (by Marc Shaiman) are great, Matin Short and the cast are hilarious ( even to this jaded Broadway vet ) the conductor is relaxed and rock-solid and the band is burnin', as always! "Nice Work If You Can Get It..."! I'm definitely going to see this one, which will be the first. What?

Well, they don't give you free tickets because they are trying to MAKE money. So you have to take off a show ( forfeiting your pay for that performance ) and pay for a ticket, the same amount everyone else has to pay. It always feel like a double financial whammy so I've never actually seen any show I've done, as I haven't felt like any of them were worth the monetary kick in the groin. ( won't now launch into the interesting topic of perceiving something like a show ENTIRELY by sound and what that does for/against you ) This one is different! It's good!

Come and see it at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street. Say "hi" into the pit!

He Proves Once Again He's No Good In The Sack....

2006-09-07T23:22:00.000-04:00

When I go on vacation, I really do go on vacation! Ahem....took the family back to the Heartland to a big, crazy reunion in ND that featured me in a sack race! Got to drive around in the middle of nowhere on some gravel roads showing the kids the towns their grandparents grew up in: Maddock, (pop. 1,000) Pembina (pop. 700) and St. John (pop. 250). Saw some great old architecture (interesting churches) and the family castle. Bought an antler whistle. Sent oldest kids to International Music Camp, where I was once a student and later a teacher, though some years ago now. Gained 8 pounds, at least! Got back just in time to start the new job: "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre!

PULSE!

2006-06-07T22:14:00.000-04:00

presents

THE ELOQUENT LIGHT
PART 2
more music inspired by photography

featuring

JOHN McNEIL trumpet
PETE McCANN electric guitar

with

DAN WILLIS reeds
MARC PHANEUF reeds
LIS RUBARD horn
MIKE CHRISTIANSON tuba
TOM BECKHAM vibes/percussion
GARY VERSACE keyboards
ANA MILOSAVLJEVIC violin
KIKU ENOMOTO violin
FRANK FOERSTER viola
THEO ZIMMERMANN cello

• • •

2 PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK

THURSDAY, 08 JUNE 2006
GALAPAGOS
70 NORTH 6TH STREET, BROOKLYN (WILLIAMSBURG)
between Kent and Wythe

8:00 PM • $10 • http://www.galapagosartspace.com

• • •

SUNDAY, 11 JUNE 2006
ST. PETER'S CHURCH
619 LEXINGTON AVENUE, MANHATTAN
corner of Lex and 54th St.

7:30 PM • $15 • http://www.saintpeters.org

• • •

NEW MUSIC BY

DARCY JAMES ARGUE

JAMIE BEGIAN

JOHN McNEIL

JOSEPH C PHILLIPS JR

JC SANFORD

JOSHUA SHNEIDER

YUMIKO SUNAMI

• • •

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Play the Tuba, see the world!

2006-06-06T16:30:00.000-04:00

photo by Darcy James Argue

Photo by no3rdW

photo by Darcy James Argue

photo by no3rdW

On Sunday, June 4 I had the great privilege to be one of the many (80 or so) tubists who performed the premier of Anthony Braxton's "Composition #19 for 100 Tubas" It was apparently written 30 years ago but for some reason (what, you think it's hard to assemble 100 tubas?), never performed until Sunday at the 2006 Bang-On-A-Can Marathon at the World Financial center in NYC.

The mass of low conicals (every type represented except the rare and wonderful true Sousaphone with bell pointing up) was divided equally into 4 platoons, each with their own conductor. We all read the same music, but each platoon would choose it's own starting point and tempo for each of the 5 10-minute sections. The sounds were purposefully low with the 5 ledger line "D" below the staff being the bottom written note, while the top compass was somewhere around "C" in the staff. The harmonic rhythm was "stately" with quarter notes being the speediest of the written rhythms.

It was a total thrill being allowed to wallow in the rumble of the low frequency spectrum for 50 minutes, surrounded by- I am not making this up- hundreds of interested fans, who remained faithfully inches away from us even as we MOVED AROUND! I saw some microphones nearby, so someday there may be an accessible sound bite of the fun. During the meanwhilst, please enjoy some of these photos:
MC Tuba

Team Town

2006-05-27T12:02:00.000-04:00

I decided that it was time that there was a baseball team to represent Slooterdam. So, I created a team in the computer based Stats Diamond Legends League. This league allows you to choose most anyone from baseball history to play on your team, within a set budget, with th "rookies" being people who have been out of baseball for abut 15 years (today's players can be used in a different league). My team: Slooterdam Nation started out like this:

C- Ernie Lombardi
C- Muddy Ruel
1B- John Mayberry
2B- Bobby Grich
2B- Sibby Sisti
3B- Puddin' Head Jones
3B- Billy Grabarkewitz
SS- Glenn Wright
LF- Jesse Burkett
CF- Bill North
RF- Tony Conigliaro
DH- Ken Phelps
OF- Mule Haas
SP- Fritz Peterson
SP- Joaquin Andujar
SP- Denny LeMaster
SP- Craig Swan
MR- Spec Shea
MR- Boom-Boom Beck
MR- Reid Cornelius
Cl- Dan Quisenberry

SN started out middlingly, then tanked their way to the cellar, where they have been comfortably nestled ever since at 19-34 (154 game season). However, there has been a shakeup on the team , and we have renewed hope! Gone, due to insuborination, sloth, or general lameness are: Bobby Grich, John Mayberry, Puddin' Head Jones, Mule Haas, Spec Shea, Boom-Boom Beck and Reid Cornelius. In their places are: Tony Lazzeri, Zeke Bonura, Mike Higgins, Ira Flagstead, Alan Foster, Chuck Smith, and Randy Tomlin. These new charges, I am sure, can lead Slooterdam Nation to mediocrity!

Breathe.......

2006-04-10T20:39:00.000-04:00

Apparently some of you have been interested, flattered. What have I been up to? (trying to formulate a coherent thought? Always, but also):

1. New Show: THREEPENNY OPERA.
Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre. Blissful music of the great Kurt Weill. Starring Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, Cyndi Lauper, Jim Dale and Nellie McKay. Since it's NEW (still in previews) I have to do EVERY show until May. Spent much time (just finished) bailing on other commitments that conflicted with new show.

2. Gotham Wind Symphony Recorded: GWS knocks out CD #2, "American Gotham" all premier-recording original works for 45-piece wind band by NYC based jazz folks: Thad Jones, Mike Holober, James Chirillo and Scott Robinson. You will hear on this recording the following sounds: duck call, siren, contrabass clarinet, contrabass saxophone, slide whistle, improvised euphonium jazz, clavioline, and the LaGuardia HS Jazz Band!! MONTHS of planning, everything went well, in MY opinion.

3. Building new project website with ARTISTSHARE: around aforementioned project. Very helpful folks, but still much work to do.

4. Teaching at the 3 colleges: NJCU, CCNY and Lehigh.

5. Repairing chipped tooth, fixing flat tire.

6. Learning to love the New York Red Bulls: My old local soccer team the Metrostars, were bought by Red Bull Energy Drink, Inc., hence the new name. Youri Djorkaeff is the most artistic and creative player on that team. An inspitration, indeed. I have a soft spot in my heart for Red Bull for 2 reasons: 1.) When I was standing on the picket line during the Broadway musician's strike, a Red Bull-shaped car screeched up to us and a very enthusiastic young fellow leapt out and asked, "Are you the striking musicians?" When I answered in the affirmative the chap queried,"Would you like some free Red Bull?" We all accepted the kind offer and were able to strike more effectively from then on! 2.) John Hollenbeck wrote a very nice version of a Monk tune for his large ensemble which he claims to have written very last minute (a commission for the Scottish National jazz Orchestra, I believe) fueled entirely by Red Bull.

Music As A Weapon

2006-03-06T15:17:00.000-05:00

I did stay home to watch the Oscars last night, being a John Stewart fan. I immediately noticed that, this year, at the VERY SECOND the award recipient got to the mic, the orchestra started a very soft ballad. At first I thought it was residual sound from some other source (an unusually well-orchestrated cell phone? inside my failing brain?). But when Tom Hanks came out to "help demonstrate this year's new tactic for shortening speeches", my initial suspicion was confirmed: They were using music to frighten people into shutting up! (for those of you who missed it, the Hanks bit had him start to blab too long, causing a 10-member mobile tactical orchestral strike force to ascend from the pit and surroung Hanks, threatening him. The climax was when Hanks was literally smashed over the head with, Stewart later pointed out, a viola. (I did enjoy Stewart's acknowleding of the live orchestra. He pointed out that they had been "down there" for two weeks, offered them a candy bar and surmised that they "must have eaten the 3rd trombone player" out of desperation!)

This brought to mind a recent news item in our own Bergen Record. It said that yet another town (in the US somewhere) was going to try piping Mozart and Beethoven into their city park to try to stop the drug dealing going on there. The article stated that this method had been used before by numerous towns with, it was implied, some success. Hmmmm...

This caused thought about the nominees for Best Original Score, a medley of which Itzhak Perlman was made to play. Mr. Perlman is capable of making the phone book sound like music and he nearly did the same for this medley of droning background fluff. When heard in comparison with what they allowed the orchestra to play behind the montage of great, sweeping epics (Copland, with actual tension, swells, crashes, melody, etc that made the segment MOVE!) it made me think that Hollywood, too, must view much of art music as a dangerous weapon. The "Best Original Score" was, even among unremarkable contenders, hands-down the most banal and cloying. I guess what I mean is that it seems as if soundtrack composers of Hollywood movies (and I suspect, others as well) are not encouraged to write music that actually registers on screen the way any other element of the production does.

So, in the interest of trying not to sound like an old crackpot, here are some exceptions: "Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi", "The Red Pony", "The Red Violin", "Amadeus", "Anatomy of a Murder" (where the sizzling soundtrack probably overwhelms the movie), "The Manchurian Candidate"(original), "Good Night and Good Luck", "The Man Who Knew Too Much"(original), "Romance With A DoubleBass".

Enjoy! Other candidates?

Area51 debuts, unexplained phenomena abound.

2006-02-21T16:31:00.000-05:00

Last night at SUNY Purchase Recital Hall the Area51 Trombone Quartet presented their first programme. The evening was peppered (much like Harry Whittington) with rarely seen events.

1. Roughly 30 people turned out, refusing to believe governmental reports refuting the enjoyability of a trombone quartet recital.

2. These 30 people apparently passed up the chance to watch Olympic Curling on TV to be at said recital.

3. This audience professed afterward to enjoy even the most contemporary literature presented.

4. The trombone was demonstrably able to back up it's well-deserved reputation as "one big tuning slide".

5. Jim Pugh performed on a half-assembled slide (STILL sounding better than everyone else).

6. A late-programme costume change made some of us look even LESS geeky.

7. After (or, possibly during) a speech "perhaps" poking fun at our current national leaders, Mark Patterson's mutes were inexplicably locked in the "green" (this designation does not refer to the "alert" level) room.

8. Mike Christianson missed his high "D". (In curling, there are 2 basic shots: the "draw"{sneak up gracefully to another rock} and the "takeout"{send that baby to the moon}. Jim Pugh, for instance could "draw" up to a high D. I could only attempt a "takeout", but I misread the ice, my embouchure started to curl, I failed to sweep and completely missed it. In curling, sometimes an apparently colossal mistake can turn out well, as in the German men's last-rock boo-bbo against the US that enabled them to score 3 points! This "happy accident" concept sadly doesn't apply in concertized written-out music, however.)

Hollywood Curling!

2006-02-10T11:58:00.000-05:00

Yes, indeed! Here's the requested list of major-release motion pictures that I know to feature curling.

1. Her Majestys Secret Service

James Bond does really curl in this rare one (the single Bond performance by George Lazenby, love theme sung by Louis Armstrong!).

2. Men With Brooms

This Canadian-produced comedy is quite enjoyable, with actual strategy and rules worked into the plot. Leslie Nielsen guest
stars.

(other movies that appear on imdb.com under a "curling" search include "Help!" {yes, that one}, "Little Women" , "My Life So Far", and "Gone Curling". That last is certainly destined to be the name of a tune I write)

OK. That's it.

John Hollenbeck at The Kitchen

2006-02-10T08:50:00.000-05:00

John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble
Inspirations and Aspirations

February 17th and 18th (Fri and Sat)
8pm

Tickets $10

Leading an eighteen-piece ensemble, the versatile percussionist and composer
John Hollenbeck presents new, surprisingly intimate, orchestral works that interweave diverse musical influences, ranging from minimalist composition to jazz-influenced free improvisation to ethereal ambient chants. The evening includes works inspired alternately by a monastic meditation guidebook, a Michael McClure poem, and Mahatma Gandhi.

Ben Kono
Charles Pillow
Dan Willis
Chris Speed
Bohdan Hilash

Tony Kadleck
Dave Ballou
Shane Endsley
Colin Brigstocke

Rob Hudson
Kurtis Pivert
Jacob Garchik
me

Matt Moran
Kris Davis
Kermit Driscoll

Theo Bleckmann
John Hollenbeck

JC Sanford

Music programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

The Kitchen is located at 512 W 19th St (betw. 10th & 11th Ave), NYC.

www.thekitchen.org

AREA51 'Bone Quartet Recital

2006-02-08T11:00:00.000-05:00

AREA51 a new Trombone Quartet will present their inaugural recital!

Monday, 2/20 7:30 PM
SUNY Purchase Recital Hall
in the Performing Arts Center.

http://www.artscenter.org/directions.html

Free.

Jim Pugh
Mark Patterson
me
Matt Ingman

play the music of:

Charles Wourinen
Joey Sellers
Derek Bourgeois
Alfred Hornoff
J.S. Bach
Claude Debussy

MC Quartet: Jazz Vespers

2006-02-08T10:52:00.000-05:00

photo by John Meyers

The Mike Christianson Quartet
Jazz Vespers
Sunday 2/12, 5PM
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
233 S Highwood Ave
Glen Rock, NJ 07452
Free

featuring:
(the aforementioned)- Trombone, Tuba, Didgeridoo
Scott Robinson- Tenor Sax, Contrabass Sarrusophone
Bill Moring- Bass
John Meyers- Drums

http://good-shepherd-lutheran-church.org/

First things first; Curling!

2006-02-08T10:01:00.000-05:00

That's right, curling. The sport invented on a frozen Scottish loch which features a pub built in to every curling facility. Why, you may ask, does he or anyone care about curling? Because I am a trophy-owning experienced curler (presently in geographically forced retirement).

Growing up in ND it was relatively easy to get bored, so one day when 3 friends and I had completely run out of ideas, we spied the lighted, flashing "Try Curling" sign at the local curling club. That's right, I said "curling club". A facility that exists ONLY for curling, and is fully equipped with a bar and an old tack piano. We discovered, as would anyone, that you just can't appreciate how much fun it is to thrust a 44lb. rock down a sheet of ice, trying to guide it around or into your opponents rocks, wielding a broom while trying not to fall down.

Our "rink" (that's curling-speak for "4-person team") with average age of 19 was, by 20 years the youngest of the 32 rinks in the club. So, we stunk. But, they loved us. They were so happy to have some new blood in their club (as well as to have someone to regularly pummel) that they allowed our fledgling rock cover band "Young Caucasians" (in which I was the keyboard operator) to rehearse there. When we found out we could be in the club alone (they gave us a key!) we not only rehearsed, but would actually practice curling. So we got better, but not enough to actually win, just enough to lose less spectacularly.

At the end of the regular league season (during which we went 0-16) the club had a "bonspiel", a 32-team double-elimination tournament. After your first 2 games you would be grouped with teams with like records. We, no surprise, ended up in the 0-2 group (or"event"). ....where we inexplicably won our next 4 games to take the "1st Place in the 4th Event" trophy, pictured here!

Here's a link to USA Curling

http://www.usacurl.org/

where you'll notice that Minnesota and North Dakota are 1&2 in the standings. New Jersey nowhere to be found!

Curling coverage starts Monday 2/13.
Go Team Johnson! Go Team Fenson!