Writing the good read
I was at Safeco Field in Seattle tonight to watch the Mariners take on the Twinkies. Seeing the Ms play always teaches me something. Here’s what I learned tonight. 1. If your dad works for the team and you have any problem, you have no problem. This is true even if the tickets you have…
I was at the U2 concert last Saturday in Seattle. It was a glorious day here in the Pacific Northwest – clear, warm, and sunny as 65,000 people streamed into Qwest Field. The crowd was slightly different from the last time I went to a U2 concert – in 1987 in Croke Park in Dublin…
Last night I listened to Paul Simon’s new album, So Beautiful or So What. Earlier, I had heard an NPR story about five composers taking on a project to write music based on Mozart’s Brandenberg Concertos. It got me thinking about who will be around, considered classical — or at least classic — in another…