J-Beat biography, J-Beat discography
Mix Master Mike Is No Beastie (document.KILLA TACTICS TEAM SET AT DMC...DMC BELGIUM 2001 6 MINU...DJ DYSFUNKSHUNAL PARTY SET AT TOUCH (document.DJ DYSFUNKSHUNAL SHOWCASE AT UNDERGRO...DJ DYSFUNKSHUNAL SHOWCASE AT UNDERGROUND KINGZ vol.Oh, the tyranny, the TYRRANY of the blog.Nevertheless, I begin where I left off.There was good news from Canada.In a matter of days, I received a bulky little package from the housekeeping department of the Wedgewood Hotel in downtown Vancouver.So what if they have a rampant crystal meth epidemic that seemed to consume their entire Sunday newspaper?Virgin Airlines seat felt so cramped that my knees ached from being pressed against the seat in front of me.The next morning at the rehearsal, I was so sleepy as to be nearly useless, but the music sounded OK.It all sounded very daunting and important.After many drinks in the hotel bar and some pretty bad "Cajun chicken" in a restaurant called Bourbon that sported amusingly bordelloid decor, we got back to the hotel and Charles the conductor deemed it necessary to kick the sculpture in the hotel lobby a few times.By the time we'd consumed our fish and chips, it was 4 pm, but still very much the middle of the day up there in early June.So my dear friends Humphrey and Christina Burton and I took a drive in their hired car up the coast.How utterly gorgeous it was!We drove straight to the distillery, which was closed.Humphrey pulled our car right into the lorry line and we sailed in.More crack cocaine at the hairdresser.Watched "Finding Neverland" on the TV in my hotel room and thoroughly enjoyed it.Bernstein pieces being performed at Waterfront Hall was the suite from the film "On the Waterfront."Humphrey and I blabbed about my dad with the radio host, Tommy Pearson, for the live broadcast on Radio 3.Remember, the day before I'd done the links for the future BBC telecast of that concert.Julian Ovendon, the handsome baritone who had just sung Tony in the "West Side Story" excerpts.His voice was rich and fine, and he was handsome too.Pretty unlikely, on such short notice, but it was sweet of him to offer.Next day, as John and Tommy and I were picking up our luggage in Heathrow, John's cell phone rang.So that evening, I met my brother and his wife for dinner with Marin Alsop (who would conduct my dad's MASS the following night).Picadilly Theatre to catch that WONDERFUL production of "Guys and Dolls."My hotel was located in Russell Place, where a month later, one of four bombs would go off and mess up the world just a little bit more.Why is the god of gigs so heartless?That gargantuan maw of an airport features a rickety little train that spares you a mile or two of walking from one end of the terminal to another.It bumps and swerves along something less track than bobsled run, weaving and lurching up and in and around and under the strange, void interstitial spaces of the airport.It feels like being on a very, very tedious amusement park ride.Pod, working out different motions for each section.Hail yer taxi to the left!Somewhere down there, between those hundreds of cookie crumbs and the jagged, snowy mountains behind us, was Vancouver.Quite the snazzy airport they have up there.Ken Hsieh, the conductor, was waiting for me on the other side of the door from Customs.To my delight, he was up for taking me someplace for a bite to eat.Ken took me to his favorite Japanese place, just a little joint in a strip mall, but when I saw all the Japanese people in there, I knew it was going to be great.Ken turned out to be a really sweet guy: a native of Vancouver, and barely 24.And a balcony with a cool urban view, and a plate of cookies, and a bar with STOOLS.Hey, I was in a foreign country!Off to rehearsal at 9:30.Vancouver Symphony liked the concert enough to invite me back to do another one, so that next time I could spend more than a paltry 20 hours in such a gorgeous place...At least Ken and I managed to wedge in one more fabulous meal before my departure.On the way to the airport, we stopped at a Malaysian place he knew about, where we had an entire Alaskan king crab smothered in spices.After landing, I had to take not one but TWO buses through the landing strips of LAX, to get to my other gate.Like a June bug among a herd of cattle, we lumbered amid those impossibly huge planes.It was an hour late, and I was awful, awful, awful tired.The other cruel trick of the gig god was to schedule my Vancouver trip on Passover weekend.Jewish calendar a year ago, when I was offered the engagement.Jewish holiday I actually get excited about.It's not every day you arrive in an airport and discover that you get to take the back roads for a while before hitting the interstate to the city.Why couldn't I see any skyscrapers from the plane, like you usually can?They contribute mightily to the community, leaving their name on buildings and civic stuff all over the area, like the bright silver trail of a slug.Ohh, it's a COLLEGE TOWN; now I was getting it.The University was up on a hill; its twin bell towers looked very pretty from my hotel window.It all looked very pretty, very soft, in the early spring sunlight.But it was no metropolis, that was for sure.I'd have given anything to be watching it with him, laughing our heads off.Jeanette McDonald, madly in love with (and secretly married to) that great, great maestro, Jose Iturbi.You'd never see a movie like that now.Is that what Leonard Bernstein represented to people back then, too?Walton Arts Center, in the same building where the concerts were.I'd been very worried about this presentation.Stella Adler, and what she always did on her first day of class.She'd write the numbers one through ten on the blackboard, then start enumerating the ten prerequisities to being a great actor.Finally a student would venture to ask, "What's number ten?"But then, over the tuna fish, I had the idea to borrow Stella's model.The lady who ran the workshop was a tall birdlike woman, Dr.She spoke in a rich, plummy voice."Well, as Stella Adler used to say..."My point being, of course, that Leonard Bernstein had Number Ten.Hey, if I could get over it, I told them, so could they!The next day had two more concerts for school kids, and the day after that, a regular family concert.Worth airport, and the southwestern Cobb salad at Chili's Too tastes like the freshest, most sophisticated dish you've ever eaten.In Des Moines, a lady came up to me and told the following story: Leonard Bernstein had always been her hero.When at last she and her son got to meet him after a concert, the son couldn't resist telling Bernstein, "My mom says you're the only guy she'd ever run away with."The maestro spread his cape like gigantic wings and said to her, "Let's go!"The Thresholds festival, invented by the church's choral director Ben Allaway, is based on Unesco's "Six Points Toward a Culture of Peace."My inspiration for this piece was ...So it was with a certain dismay that I beheld my chorus for the first time at the rehearsal, an hour or so before the concert; they were most decidedly midwestern and, um, white.Judith Clurman, director of the Juilliard chorus, flew in that morning and wrestled the piece into shape.The biggest problem became getting out of Des Moines.The early connections to Chicago were already sold out.There are, incidentally, no direct flights between New York City and the capital of Iowa.And there was no other way to do it than to rent a car and DRIVE after the concert, six hours, through snow and rain, to Chicago.Me and James and Judy Clurman.How did Beethoven do it??By the end of the Ode to Joy I was still standing over the boom box in my kitchen, dissolved in tears.OK, I'm already expanding the definition of my blog.The next concert was neither "Bernstein Beat," nor was it on the road; it was "Extreme Orchestra," right here in NYC, in beautiful, sonorous Carnegie Hall.Ork" for the San Antonio Symphony, which had liked "Beat" so much that they wanted us to come back a year later with another one.It worked GREAT in San Antonio.Larry Fried, who was running the orchestra down there at the time, was the one who stuck his neck out and commissioned the concert.Mikey and I sure were; with Larry's and the San Antonio Symphony's help, we now had a second family concert to offer around.Last summer Mike and I did it at Caramoor with the Orchestra of St.To reel back for a moment...Gee, we would have taken it to Albania, but they're not Communist any more.And so that is what we did.Time was short, and Mike was rehearsing as fast as he could on Saturday morning for our concert a couple of hours later.As we were waiting in the wings to go onstage for the concert, the stage manager came up to me, touched my earrings and murmured, "Ted Muehling?"After two student orchestras in a row, I was STUNNED to hear the Minnesota Orchestra.Jeremiah excerpt, which is so difficult that both student orchestras had cut it from their programs.Avery Fisher Hall, which was designed by the same architect!Swiss guy by way of Hungarian parents, ran an efficient rehearsal and drew a gorgeous sound out of the musicians.Pyo, he's worth keeping an eye on.We played six concerts over the course of the week.The first four, two on Wednesday morning and two on Thursday morning, were for school groups.They have a fantastic committee there that raises money for buses to bring the school groups to concerts several times a year.The hall acoustics helped, I think, to make the sound absolutely enormous.After one of the concerts, there was a reception for the committee that bused in the students.David Wright, offered the addition of "lefse and lutefisk," some Minnesota specialities of questionable deliciousness.The most secure place for the tape is at the back of the neck, that very vulnerable area where the hairline ends."So, are you ready for your mic?"One violinist told me that she'd been playing in the St.The engines are noisy on this commuter prop jet, but it was a fine sunset ride.Getting down there was a huge pain in the butt because of very nasty weather.But such a reward awaitied me: Craig Barton's RIBS.It was sublime, and the Bartons were all around me, plus Laura Thomas, the vivacious, indomitable conductor of the Charlottesville High School Orchestra, plus the Bartons' hilarious and very endearing friends Bruce and Roberta.Now THAT'S how to welcome an artist to your town.Bartons, I suppose, but I got to have a room at the Omni.Saturday was intense: 10 a.It all went terrifically well.Daddy would have loved the whole thing.Juliana Barton in the string section!!I'm sorry to have missed the fun in the city with the kids; I LOVE a good snowstorm...Are we having fun in the Albany Depot yet??She was great in the rehearsal.At one point she gave the zenlike instruction, "Play music in the rests!"At the performance the next day, the percussion player kept his fingers fervently wrapped around his whistle.They cancelled that night's screening of "West Side Story," at which I was to make some opening remarks.Because of the screening cancellation, I had a LOT of down time in my hotel room.So back up I went, ordered room service chicken marsala (hey, not too bad), and watched "Garden State" on TV.And the snow kept coming down outside.Pyo surprised me by suddenly addressing the audience: "You must all wait a moment.Somewhere between the stage entrance and the podium, I seem to have lost my baton!"The crowd really seemed to enjoy itself.Ch'ville too, come to think of it.It really is like an egg on a stick.You go up the stick in an elevator, and there are two auditoriums contained within the egg.When I get back to NYC, I'll have just enough time to greet the kids, put them to bed, get them off to school in the morning, repack and take a car to Newark airport to catch the plane to Minneapolis.It worked nicely to have the two concerts on the same weekend, as there was a lot of repeat material in the orchestral sections (On the Town, West Side Story), which made for less rehearsal.Thurs Oct 7: It's POURING here in Li'l Rock."Hah hah," he said again.Sat Oct 9: The show last night went just great: if only more people had been there.Between the weather and the Presidential debate and some baseball playoff, well...Sun Oct 10: "LB Beat" was not fun.But things really fell apart toward the end.Anyway I left Li'l Rock with the feeling that everyone had had quite enough of Bernstein, thank you very much.Today's concert was a study in contrast with a week ago.The Milwaukee Symphony was alert, engaged and cheerful; the Li'l Rockers seemed rather a dour bunch by comparison.My dressing room had its own bathroom.Not like the dank, gray caverns underneath the stage in Li'l Rock.As opposed to my "hah hah" redneck feller, she was an attractive, lean woman with a bright smile and an impeccable way of speaking.Before the concert there was a fantastic bunch of activities for the kids out in the foyer.The audience seemed to love it.That's why Jon Stewart is so refreshing; he skewers the claptrap and reveals what's underneath.Ten minutes from landing at La Guardia.The engines are noisy on this commuter prop jet, but it was a fine sunset ride.Charlottesville, and the adventures to come, and a spontaneous little smile came over my face.First really good feeling I've had in weeks.That did set me back somewhat; I'm definitely fighting bronchitis now.But my energy is getting better, in painstakingly small increments.But such a reward awaitied me: Craig Barton's RIBS.And corn bread, and collards, and grilled asparagus.It was sublime, and the Bartons were all around me, plus Laura Thomas, the vivacious, indomitable conductor of the Charlottesville High School Orchestra, plus the Bartons' hilarious and very endearing friends Bruce and Roberta.Saturday was intense: 10 a.It all went terrifically well.The high school orchestra had rehearsed fror six weeks, and with the help of some ringers in the winds, brass and percussion, they sounded FABULOUS.Daddy would have loved the whole thing.Are we having fun in the Albany Depot yet??She was great in the rehearsal.She was funny and lively and pretty, and drew a terrific performance out of the kids.They cancelled that night's screening of "West Side Story," at which I was to make some opening remarks.Board members were offering to take orchestra members in for the night if they lived too far away to get home safely.But by 10 the next morning, the sun was gleaming through the cloud cover, and by 11 the sky was well along toward clearing.Pyo surprised me by suddenly addressing the audience: "You must all wait a moment.Somewhere between the stage entrance and the podium, I seem to have lost my baton!"The crowd really seemed to enjoy itself.Ch'ville too, come to think of it.You go up the stick in an elevator, and there are two auditoriums contained within the egg.All the walls are curved.When I get back to NYC, I'll have just enough time to greet the kids, put them to bed, get them off to school in the morning, repack and take a car to Newark airport to catch the plane to Minneapolis.I'm definitely going to bookmark you!It pretty much covers sports wagering related stuff.Exit Traffic is actually one of the best forms of traffic generation.It pretty much covers Traffic related stuff.Vegetables are great, but the Heart Start Defibrillator is better (At saving your life, that is ;) ).Rettop Method was the best for generating traffic.The man with the toothache thinks every one happy whose teeth are sound."Note: some videos not suitable for minors may still appear in search results.This video will appear on your blog shortly.This video has been added to your favorites.Please login to add to favorites.The video has been added to your playlist.Please login to add to your playlists.Change this to see only comments above a certain value.I'd like to go to Host Club Adam and Eve..WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY WEARING?!First is a short live clip, then an interview, then more live clips."YouTube recommends upgrading to a safer, modern browsersuch as Firefox.Please login to add to favorites.Be the first to Post a Video Response.DYSFUNKSHUNAL ya sik wit it, one of the best jugglaz i member hearin u on the net years ago man, keep up the good work peace, bert!CRACK HEAD GOES NUTS IN THE STREET.WHY NOT TO SCARE PEOPLE!AFRO DUDE ATTEMPTS FLIP, FAILS BUT TRIES TO CONTINUE.Kitty, L, Ritsuka, Emily The Strange and more..."Why do the french eat only one egg at breakfast?"Apr 6, 2008, 11:55:51 PM
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