School will resume on Wed, 9/6, and seeing that life will soon assume less meaningful activities, I’ve decided now would be a good time to recap on last year, 2005-2006.
In August 2005 I was happily back in Boston and was excited as ever seeing old friends from NEC–Eliot Fisk, Grisha Goryachev, Santiago Diaz, Zaira Meneses. We spoke of the coming year and considered various goals and projects. The Boston Guitar Project was born around that time as was the Boston Guitar Quartet (myself, Grisha, Santi and Zaira).
School started–and I quickly sought out my favorite species: the composers. Among them, Matthew McConnell has become my collaboration (and drinking) buddy. School work came and went as usual and a professor I respected turned out to be just another one of them musicologists. The theory teachers turned out to be totally cool though. Eliot Fisk soon announced his plan for Boston GuitarFest 2006 and I became his assistant.
NEC is still the same. Getting better, but still the same. I started this blog to get a conversation going. I’m sure it will pick up again once the school year starts up in two days.
The Boston GuitarFest and Boston Guitar Project were both big turning points in my life. I didn’t just find a reason to learn more about Photoshop and Dreamweaver but they gave me something new for my mind to chew on. Fresh food is always fabulous.
Sigh… school is starting soon. Oh well, let’s throw some parties and makes some new friends!!!
