John, are you coming up to lake 1st 2 weeks of aug?

I finally got to watch the whole video. This was a wonderful tribute, and John sort of laid bare, T-shirts and all. It was great to see some of the important people on the "New Music" scene in attendance, especially Steve Reich and the band ETHEL.

I did miss a couple of things and some people. I think when Dean was talking about the events of 2002, he might have mentioned the advent of wnyc2, the 24/7 internet stream erected by WNYC. With the movement of so much of what is important in music and performance to the internet, wnyc2 went a long way to assuage our loss of day time music at WNYC. After we lost day time music, I had joined KUSC, WCNY, and WCPE. One thing WNYC taught me was the value and importance of membership. With the growth of wnyc2, I pulled those member dollars back to WNYC. wnyc2 also focused on the newly emerging presence of "New Music", terrific if anyone asks me.

The speaker for the band ETHEL made a passing reference to Q2. Q2 grew out of wnyc2 when NYPR took over WQXR. He spoke of it as a "program", when in fact it is a full blown 24/7 "New Music" destination on the internet. While WNYC's broadcast music had begun to move toward the new, WQXR under NYPR remaind pretty traditional. So, again Q2 goes a long way. Also, we have seen the advent of long form music video, from ICE, presented at Q2. I hope that this expands. Q2 is really sort of New Sounds "in the fullness of time". Q2 is embracing every possible internet asset available, and this is great.

I thought missing from the celebration were several people. First, Q2's Nadia Sirota. She is brilliant and articulate. I cannot know her level of staff importance at NYPR, but, surely, she is the face and the voice of Q2.

I would have liked to see someone from Bang On A Can, Julia, David, Michael, Evan or Mark. Maybe they are in Sidney or Zagreb.

And last, Philip Glass. Maybe he and Steve Reich are not to be seen together; but, as much as I admire Steve Reich, I equally admire Philip Glass.

I will never forget at the 20th anniversary of New Sounds, celebrated on Soundcheck, the guys from Turtle Island called in and basically said, no New Sounds, no Turtle Island.

While New Sounds has lost none of its fervor for what is emerging, back in the eighties and into the nineties, New Sounds and John where in the white hot spotlight for the new stuff. Many composers and musicians, e.g. Osvaldo Golijov, really got their first big exposure in the big city on that gigantic program.

Thanks, again, for 30 great years.

Thanks, John for the video review of a lot of my life. You have been my greatest teacher in music, after my own father.

>>RSM