And it's a New Year. I'd like to welcome in a new addition: Mr. Nolan Charles Li, who is my nephew and has not only burped up milk on me, peed on me, and pooped in the middle of my changing his diaper in the two short weeks I spent with him, but has made my heart melt like a stick of butter in the microwave. More on him on the other pages.
This month sees us preparing for our next half-season with new works to our repertoire by Barber, Bartok, Beethoven, Berg, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich and, as far as I can tell, a fiendishly difficult quartet to learn by Huck Hodge, for which the work's premiere is scheduled next month in New York. I'm excited to see it unfold.
News:
January 3rd: The quartet appears with UCSF Chancellor's Concert Series at Cole Hall, SF, CA. Free admission. Works by Vrebalov and Shostakovich.
January 20th: I'll play Debussy Cello Sonata with Stevan Cavalier, pianist, presented by the Sierra Chamber Society in Walnut Creek, CA. Tickets are $19.
January 27th: The quartet is presented in Montalvo Center for the Arts' Greenberg Lecture Series. An all-Shostakovich program of his String Quartets No. 2, 7, and 13.
