Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun …
Review: Graun gets his day at Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar. The Orange County Register, June 22, 2015.
How to make a martini for Dad on Father’s Day (or any day)
The first step in making a good martini is to throw away your vodka. Sorry, but there it is. No self-respecting martini drinker would be caught alive with a so-called “vodka martini” in his hand, a misnomer if there ever was one, since there is no such thing. Martinis are made with gin. Deal with it.
Making a martini is really rather simple (unless, perhaps, you’ve had a couple), but it’s also pretty easy to mess up. But to my mind, when properly made, there’s no more satisfying after-work, pre-dinner drink to be had — clean, medicinal and, best of all, powerful — so follow my instructions closely.
First (OK, second, since you’ve already thrown away the vodka), slap a Dean Martin CD on the stereo. Listen for a while, then turn it off, so you can concentrate. I’ll trust that you have martini glasses and a metal cocktail shaker. If not, stop reading and go to the store now (try Crate and Barrel).
Review: 69th annual Ojai Music Festival
Review: 69th annual Ojai Music Festival is chock-full affair. The Orange County Register, June 18, 2015.
photo: Mariah Tauger for the Ojai Music Festival.
From the archive: Vinko Globokar, Nov. 24, 2000
(Editor’s note: I had forgotten that I had heard the composer himself perform “?Corporel”.)
A one-man band of surreal sound // REVIEW: Avant-garde musician Vinko Globokar offers a survey of his experimental works, with humor attached.
By TIMOTHY MANGAN
Published: 11/24/2000
If you haven’t seen or heard Vinko Globokar you’ve never seen or heard anything quite like him. The French-Slovenian composer-trombonist, who appeared in the Music and Media Building at University of California, Irvine, Tuesday night, is a one-man band of the European avant-garde. If the world were a painting by Salvador Dali, he’d be the street musician.
Trombone is his nominal instrument. But he rarely plays it in a conventional way. Instead, he uses it as a tool to make an encyclopedia of sounds, a rich catalog of sci-fi sonorities that you wouldn’t imagine possible, usually accomplished without electronic additives.
Pacific Symphony season finale
Review: An eclectic mix brings season to an end for St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony. The Orange County Register, June 12, 2015.
Ojai Music Festival: Friday night
Review: Percussionist Steven Schick makes Ojai Music Festival his own. The Orange County Register, June 14, 2015.
photo: Mariah Tauger for the Ojai Music Festival
From the archive: Bocelli, June 8, 2009
Review: Bocelli bowls ’em over at the Bowl. The Orange County Register, June 8, 2009.
Preview: 69th annual Ojai Music Festival
Preview: Ojai Music Festival dances to the beat of its own drummer: Steven Schick. The Orange County Register, June 5, 2015.
photo: Timothy Norris
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