Saturday 01/17/2026
Somehow I kept busy in the morning. Went downstairs for breakfast, which I don’t usually do. Anyway, had an early lunch then headed out to the Museum to lead the 2pm tour. Good tour, nice crowd.
Back at 3:30 and then met with Joanne about 4:45 to plan some upcoming outings. It had gotten too complicated to get them all planned by emails. At 5:15 we met with the Rhudys, Roberta and Richard, and Sherry, for dinner. Nice dinner, talking about all sorts of things, including photography, which Roberta and Richard are top-rank amateurs at.
At 6:30 we two split for the Stanford campus to attend a concert. This was our first time in the space called the Bing Studio. The Bing Concert Hall has been there a decade, we’ve both attended events in the main concert space which seats near a thousand. But this was downstairs, a nice small room with a cocktail lounge vibe, small tables with 4 chairs each and a stage in the corner. Guessing maybe 150 people max?
The performer was Sasha Berliner playing vibraphone, along with a pianist named Paul Cornish. Their music was… well, there was a lot of skill on display. But it was the kind of jazz where you listen and listen and you can’t pick up a melody or any structure. It just goes a while and later stops. I’m very melody-oriented, and I just can’t imagine how these musicians memorize all their songs, 5-minute, 10-minute long pieces where I just can’t find anything that repeats, nothing to hang on to. There has to be a structure to it but I can’t find it. So we agreed it was interesting.
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