Anton Kuerti, SLSQ
:: Thursday, November 21st, 2002 @ 3:48:39 am
:: Tags: Music
I am exhausted. I took Vienna and Adam to Stanford to hear the St. Lawrence String Quartet play with their friend, Anton Kuerti. He played two Beethoven sonatas in the first half before joining the SLSQ to play Brahms Piano Quintet. Fantastic stuff. :) Although — Vienna, Ben Chen and I all felt that we were unable to identify what it was that made Anton brilliant. It wasn’t that we couldn’t feel the brilliance. It was that the Beethoven flew over our heads, leaving us with only a vague impression of its power. Clearly, some people got it. They gave him a standing ovation — at intermission.
Before the show, Lesley introduced me to Wu Han, who was sitting out in front of Dinkelspiel. She’s very easy to talk to, and joked around a lot. She said that she knows (or knows of) my mom. It really is a small world out there. Adam posted photos already.
Geoff and Adam |
 Livia cut and dyed Geoff's hair last week |
 Backstage (with SLSQ, Anton Kuerti, and Wu Han) |
 Livia and Me. The mirror is really screwed up. :) |
 Vienna, talking to Barry and Anton |
 BenJAmin: EE Grad Student Extraordinaire |
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i talked with benjamin tonight about how my journal makes it look like i’m always out… you know, being cultured and stuff.
funny. i feel like i just sit here at my computer all day.
Well, you can’t exactly post about sitting in front of a computer. "Today I did some work, sent some emails… Now I’m posting stuff, which means I’m posting about posting stuff." That’s an ugly cycle. :)
I need a camera for when I go outside. I always see strange things at my shows which scream to be documented. Last weekend I saw a lamp made out of the legs of a deer.
Temporarily delurking to ask: you have a 24mm f/1.4 lens!?!
hi, chester. yeah — it’s a fantastic piece of hardware. 24/1.4L, by Canon. :)