Tag: dso
Jaap van Zweden at the DSO
September 17th, 2008, No Comments
On Saturday, Susan and I attended our first Dallas Symphony performance since Jaap van Zweden took over as Music Director. His conducting style is very different from Andrew Litton. Litton always seemed to be conducting a few notes ahead of the orchestra – he waved the baton and a second later you’d hear the orchestra [...]
Coyotes in Irving, TX
January 22nd, 2006, No Comments
Wow, has it been two months since I posted anything? Time flies when you’re busy. Yesterday Susan and I were driving out to Home Depot to buy a new lawn mower when we spotted a Coyote wandering along near Highway 161 (in Irving, TX). I had a camera with me but it didn’t have a [...]
Andrew Litton Invited us Backstage at the DSO
May 4th, 2004, No Comments
After the DSO concert Saturday evening, Susan and I ventured backstage at the invitation of Andrew Litton. Following instructions printed from an email, we made our way through a nearly pitch black corridor of the Meyerson known as the green room and knocked on the appropriate door. But I should start at the begining. Susan [...]
Emanuel Ax
April 30th, 2004, No Comments
Earlier this Month, Susan and I were able to see a perfomance of John Adams‘ Century Rolls at the Bass Performance Hall in Ft. Worth. It was performed, of course, by Emanuel Ax, for whom it was originally composed. Generally you have to drive to Austin or Houston to hear a symphony play anything by [...]
Robots and Robotron
January 31st, 2004, No Comments
I’m finally within sight of being mostly caught up on a lot of the work around here. Susan and I managed to find time to make two DSO performances in January. I might even have enough free time to keep my weblog up to date or work on a few non-work-related projects during February. Work [...]
Buying Camera Gear From eBay vs Camera Shows
May 4th, 2002, No Comments
Busy day. Spent the morning mowing and edging the yard. We had lunch in Grapevine on the way out to a camera show sponsored by one of our clients. There was some interesting stuff to see at the camera show including non-photography items like two light sabers and an old Star Trek type one phaser. [...]
Rain and Music
April 17th, 2002, No Comments
Yesterday afternoon there was a huge thunderstorm that brought along quite a bit of hail. I decided to hang around the office to make sure all the servers made it through the storm. We took to a couple of small power hits, neither outage lasted over 5 minutes, and the UPS’ saved the day again. [...]
Where do they get those Dr. Evil Suits?
March 11th, 2002, No Comments
Susan and I attended the Symphony this weekend. Nothing really amazing to report. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (I loathe piano concertos…), and Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D major. Jesús López-Cobos was guest conductor. Like many conductors he dressed like a James Bond villain. [...]
