Archive for December, 2008

Ewa Kupiec Online

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

     My favorite concer pianist now has a home on the web! Click here for Ewa Kupiec’s home page!

     My wife and I got to see her perform George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in Mainz, Germany.  It was a fantastic event! The Mainz orchestra was pretty good, they played four other pieces that night withougt Ewa, but Ewa basically was the show during the Rhapsody

     My two caveats for this post:  1) In the interest of full disclosure, Ewa provided us with some choice seats in the second row; and 2) I’m not a classical music critic by any stretch of the imagination, I just enjoy listening! 

     Please check out her site, and if you get a chance to hear her in concert, I highly recommend it!

Seventy-Nine

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbK3RhCQoI8

     Here’s an academic take on the financial crisis.  This is 58:19 long, so grab a break and a cup of coffee if you mean to watch this! [Update - Sorry, for some reason embedding it did not work this time.]

     I also just ran across a new favorite quote by Brian Rogers, T. Rowe Price Chairman and Chief Investment Officer:  "Statistically speaking, the world does not end that often."   

     In case you were wondering, seventy-nine is 2008 minus 1929.   

Update 2 - Attempt 2 to embed is below: