Zach?

Zach, the piano player?
Zach, the blogger?
Zach, the dead president?
Send me an address.

Even though I have comments from dead poets, dead imaginary composers, and dead imaginary drug swilling goth poets, I doubt that I'll ever have any communication from any dead presidents.
But, you never know.

So anyway, now it's Monday morning and I've done nothing worth writing about yet but the sun seems to be peeking through so maybe I'll get to ride the bike today.

This just in

While looking through my contacts list trying to find Zach's address, I ran across this SSO and Haiku related e-mail. ROFLOL

Mr. Palmer: Your email is the first that the Symphony has heard
concerning the score that you referenced. It has now been located and
is being sent to you today by Federal Express. The Symphony is not
retaining any copy of it.

Mark Berry

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Palmer [mailto:lanesavant@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:11 AM
To: Berry, Mark
Subject: RE: Seattle Symphony

F. Y.I. You may not know this, but Copyright violations are a Federal
offense

If the SSO wishes to keep my copyrighted material, the price is $10,000.

This price includes all copies that I have, copy of the file on my
computer, and the copyright.
The score that the SSO seems to covet is a 8x11 bound in a pink cover
with a black plastic spiral binding.
The title of the piece is "Six Mechanical Haiku" with the pseudonym of
Chris Shendo overwritten with my crude signature. It was placed on the
shelf in Soundbridge without my knowledge by Bryan Stratton. The SSO has
deprived me of it and continues to hold it illegally.
The SSO has thirty days to submit payment.
In my 13 years running my auto repair shop, I have made the acquaintance
with several very effective collection agencies and your failure to pay
for goods
taken will force me to use their services.

What a hoot!!!

I used to give them money and subscribe annually and subscribe to Soundbridge.

Actually it's more fun this way.

I have more of these things, I saved all my correspondence pertaining to these guys.

Anyway, I gotta run.

Seattle Symphony fails again

It has been three days and the Symphony has not answered my challenge. I therefore declare, by the ancient code of honor, that the Seattle Symphony agrees to be considered liars, cowards, and completely with out honor.
Who would have thought that these despicable weenies would be afraid of a creampuff?
Or a little truth?
A sad day for Seattle and the art world.

However, we still have Speight Jenkins and the world-class Seattle Opera.
Handel's Julius Ceaser in Egypt, which my wife and I attended, was a long evening of beautiful song masterfully rendered, and beautiful music played by the masterfully talented musicians from the aforementioned Seattle Symphony.

An example of the right way to run an arts organization
And an example of the wrong way.

Children beware, learn to value honor and speak truth, do your homework and cultivate decent company.
Let not vanity inform you.
Learn to follow the Golden Rule and consider others before you act.
I shudder to think of you wallowing in filth and cowardice in the gutters of Second Avenue, like the Seattle Symphony.

Let not fame, power, nor riches blind you, for these things cannot compensate for the loss of your soul.

Do not lie on job resumes to get jobs for which you are not qualified nor intelligent enough to do.

And let me see, wash your hands frequently, cover your mouth when you sneeze or yawn
drink plenty of liquids and get eight hours of sleep each night.

More Seattle Symphony dirt

Anonymous said...

The Sea Symph just announced their ticket prices for the 2007-08 season. Benaroya will probably be the only concert hall in the world that charges more (MUCH more) to sit in the 3rd tier than in the 2nd tier; in fact it will be as much as a seat in the prime part of the "Orchestra" seating area. Is someone "nuts" at Benaroya or simply trying evily to bankrupt the Symphony?????

11:33 AM

Melinda Bargreen writes about this in this morning's Mar 2 Seattle Times

Your product isn't selling so you raise prices and alienate your best customers??

This is definately in accordance with my beliefs of SSO's continuing deterioration.

New Year

And a happy 2007 to you all!
Time for resolutions again. I'm going to try a new approach this year.
I resolve to be a complete loser and fail at every thing I try.
Couldn't be much worse.
Actually I haven't ever had much luck trying to accomplish things. My usual strategy is to just do stuff without any specific goal and see what happens.
It seems to me that any attempt to plan or accomplish stuff just confuses the matter, like struggling in quicksand.
It's the emotional involvement of taking things "seriously" that causes the problems, I guess.
But, I did have luck with my music last year, two performances, so who knows?
I am going to keep working on my concerto project (all the usual instruments of the orchestra from flute on down) I am presently at trumpet and a little bit leery of competing with Sam Jones' fine tuba concerto.
Actually This project started two(?) years ago or so. Several people liked the flute one, one of the people died shortly thereafter, and one person filed a harassment complaint because of it. I still think of it as a bad luck work.
Go figure.
It was partially based on that tripartite stone artwork in Myrtle Edwards park.
It has three movements, called, Cleft, Schizm, and Chasm. It's about the process of withdrawal into one's imagination as a response to social rejection.
Or some damn thing.
The first composition I ever presented was a set of variations on an origional theme that I recorded with a patch of my cat's voice (Heller, now deceased)
It was funny, and several people since then have requested copies.
Today, I finally managed to upload the mp3 on my Society of composers site.(societyofcomposers.org)
If I ever figure out how to link it, I'll let you know.

I failed at my goal of getting 1000 on my counter last year. Alas!