A great commercial for a beverage that I think is a great promotion for the symphony orchestra. It features the rapper 50 Cent and the “National Symphony”. I got a kick out of this one - especially the fact that a “rapper violist” is brought in to replace the orchestra’s principal violist. Violas represent! [Read more →]

For those of you who love (and who doesn’t?) the Young Artists at the Schnitz concerts each year - there is more good news. Christopher O’Riley’s radio show “From the Top” has now become a PBS television program!

The show will begin airing on Oregon Public Broadcasting (television) starting on Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. - here is the program schedule.

Here is a trailer from youtube:

God, I love Wikipedia!  Found this tidbit in the entry for Bill Nye: The Science Guy (after spotting him on a tv show (NUMB3RS) this evening):

On Friday, February 3, 2006, Nye was married to Blair Tindall.^[4] Tindall and Nye had been engaged for five months. The pair exchanged watches instead of rings “as a symbol,” Nye explained, “of man’s reckoning with time”.^[5] Tindall is the author of Mozart in the Jungle and she is a former concert oboist. The two exchanged vows at Richard Saul Wurman’s The Entertainment Gathering 2006 conference where Nye spoke. They were married by the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, accompanied by MIT Media Lab professor Michael Hawley on the piano, performed a wedding march. The engagement was announced by Nye, while appearing on the December 19, 2005 episode of talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Bill Nye and Blair Tindall ended their marriage seven weeks after the conference ceremony. An invalid marriage license and “too much too soon” were cited as the reasons for the split. Blair Tindall announced this publicly on the LA radio show, The David Lawrence Show (July 2006).