Non-Zero played NYU last night. A fun concert, but what a day. Tim and I left Boston at 7:30am and arrived in NYC at 12:30pm thanks to the rain. A full day of work-shopping new works with the NYU graduate composers, a short recording session, and finally a concert shared with the stellar Janus trio. Tim headed home to Boston right after the concert and I stayed in the city with an old friend in order to catch an 8am flight to North Carolina for some business over the next couple of days. My old friend is Evan Tobias, actually the very first person I met as an undergraduate. He’s a music educator and one of the most serious and creative folks I’ve had the opportunity to know in the discipline. He’s a proponent of alternative teaching models and is working hard to integrate new technological approaches into the classroom, including laptop improvisation. I suspect you won’t find Orff instruments in Evan’s classroom. For those interested in a non-corporate alternative to various web-releated things, he’s also got a web hosting operation. Not to be outdone with my new Sciarrino acquisition, Ken Ueno shows me a CD of Sciarrino’s Studi per l’intonazione del mare (2000) for contralto, four flutes, four saxophones, percussion, orchestra of 100 flutes and 100 saxophones.