First stop Chile, next the world!
I got an email today from Art of the States letting me know that they’d put together a show focusing on doubles / dualities that included my recording Philip Glass’s Piece in the Shape of a Square. Apparently, this is a radio show that’s been shopped around to international broadcasters. The first to pick it up was Radio Beethoven FM in Santiago, Chile. Pretty cool. Wonder where it’ll end up next!
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In Praise of Bags In Trees
Once upon a time, before I was curating the Mobtown Modern Music Series, I had an anti-environmentalist alter ego who curated the satirist blog Bags In Trees. To refresh your memory, Bags In Trees is / was a website dedicated to showcasing the beauty of the omnipresent plastic accessories that adorn the trees of Baltimore, MD. It was a wonderful time. There were even a cast of characters—most notably the villains Ian Frazier and Bette Midler, resplendent with her meddling New York Restoration Project cronies....
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Baltimore Magazine’s Best of Baltimore 2010
Some really amazing news came in the mail a couple weeks ago, when I found out that Baltimore Magazine had named me the MVP Arts Explorer in their 2010 Best of Baltimore issue. Here’s the blurb: As both musician (playing sax) and curator (booking the Contemporary’s excellent Mobtown Modern Music Series), Brian Sacawa has helped raise the profile of new music in Baltimore. And folks are still buzzing about Rite of Swing, Mobtown’s jazzy take on Stravinsky’s Rite, which closed out its season in May....
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Talk and Action
Franco, the Mexican Macbeth, raised his hand again, and began quoting from Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” about the differences between science and the arts. “If you want to build a bridge as a civil engineer, or do physics, you can’t question all of the assumptions at the same time,” Franco said. “It’s not that there’s not creativity in the hard sciences. It’s that you can’t afford the consequences of getting the bridge wrong, because it falls.” - From “In Training: Leaders-to-Be” by Ben...
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