Last Sunday, we mentioned a concert that we were going up to in Palo Alto. More people showed up than I had expected, fewer than Rebecca had expected. The concert was a refreshing experience, since we haven't had much live music in our lives lately - or at least not much good live music. San Jose isn't a cultural center for the arts and we haven't been making much of an effort to invest in seeing their chamber orchestra. Perhaps we should, just to see if it is worth it. But after an evening of Brahams, Saint-saens and Rachmaninoff I am more determined to cultivate my enjoyment of live Rachmaninoff performances.
This week was the last week of school before a week of spring break. While we had hoped to make great plans for leaving the area, we're still debating on where we would go if we could. Maybe I'll be able to finish the piles of back-work that needs to be done and we can drive up to Oregon this coming weekend or go camping in Yosemite. But maybe not.
Due to the frantic pace of this week, not much could be mentioned about its "going-ons." Regardless, Wednesday evening we drove to Saratoga hills to find the Montalvo Arts Center in the dark, arriving 30 minutes late for a presentation on one of the current artists in residency. But we made it and got to meet the current artist in residency and, for my part, to meet the Montalvo director Gordon Knox. It was a good evening and Julie Myers' (the current artist in residence) presentation gave us some good ideas how to proceed with my own projects.
I have a particular invested interest in the Montalvo Arts Center because of the connections being forged between Montalvo and the CADRE lab at SJSU (by the way, not to be off topic but apparently the University is changing its name from SJSU to something better explaining the CSU status that the university has had for the past 150+ years. However, due to it being the first CSU campus, it never was renamed to match the current system. The school now intends to remedy that.) Returning to Montalvo and the CADRE lab, the two directors have been working together to create a tighter knit community between CADRE grads and the artist in residency workshop, not to mention a link to the Zero One biennale festival. This is big news. Keep it on the down-low, though.
Saturday was a nice breezy day and even though we talked about going out to fly our kite, we never did. Rebecca went with her friend Kate to go window shopping for most of the afternoon and I spent the day researching in SecondLife and taking a realspace 10-mile bike tour of the area. We then watched too many movies and have decided that we can't let the rest of our spring break slip away like this. But onwards and upwards, right?
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