An interview with concert pianist Derek Polischuk: PART 2
Teaching at Michigan State University’s College of Music in East Lansing is an incredible pianist and teacher with a sharp mind and an infectiously positive outlook, Derek Polischuk. This San Diego...
View ArticleDerek Polischuk: Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1
The Avocado Jungle is excited to share with you an excellent performance of the Shostakovich Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35. Pianist Derek Polischuk is on the...
View ArticlePoetry: “unseen (unwanted?)” by Jeremy Olsen
unseen (unwanted?) In time I’ll have to throttle up and go. I’m just two steps too slow. (My dancing days are gone, you know.) I raise a fist but should be swinging two; all of my neighbors do, gray...
View ArticlePoetry: “arizona” by Jeremy Olsen
arizona once i sat and watched the summer sun set on a cactus — this at best a risky practice — and i felt icarus might enjoy the news, so, bored, i schemed to use the reverberant canyon lands of...
View ArticleSEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH: Rapid change and the good old days
Normally my role as Director of Development with the Avocado Jungle has me recruiting staff and booking guest writers and artists, along with a laundry list of technical and organizational things to...
View ArticleTHE CAVEMAN HYPOTHESIS: Why now is better than it seems.
Another new semi-regular “column” from me: The Caveman Hypothesis. Simply put, this is my idea that a great many idiosyncracies, tendencies, and behaviors we humans have in the 21st century make a lot...
View ArticleAn interview with Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary
Listen to the interview. When you consider all the television channels that are now widely available (over a hundred in the average home) I think the tiny number of truly iconic new programs says a...
View ArticleAn interview with Roni Segoly of Combatants For Peace
Listen to the interview. It has been a while since I’ve heard the sound of an old record on the turntable with all of its scratches and ticks and pops, but I think I recently heard its digital...
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An interview with singer-songwriter Adjoa Skinner
Listen to the interview. * * * * * * * * * * Adjoa Skinner, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and Summer 2010 Avocado Jungle Artist In Residence.Some people just radiate energy and life....
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An interview with Dana Castaldo of Red Light Go
Listen to the interview. * * * * * * * * * * “Aldo Sings”, photograph by Angela Richelle. From the Red Light Go recording session at PRS in Pasadena March 12, 2010. Aldo is pictured here adding his...
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