My friends do cool stuff.
Just landed in Hong Kong for two weeks of concerts. I think this is my fifth time back. It feels like my home base in Asia.
Before I left SF, I got to see “Legally Blonde - The Musical,” with music and lyrics by my friends Larry O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. It’s a really fun time - clever, catchy, energetic, and VERY funny. If you’re in SF, I strongly recommend that you check it out before it heads to Broadway. You won’t be disappointed.
Meanwhile Nathaniel Stookey is deep in his residency at San Francsico Recycling & Disposal (aka the dump). Instead of the usual sculptor artists-in-residence, the dump has commissioned Mr. Stookey to creat a JUNKESTRA. More soon.
Also, Matthew Cmiel, the man behind Formerly Known as Classical, came by for a conducting lesson. He showed me a very convincing performance of Adams’s Shaker Loops, and he knew the score cold. Rock on.