hi folks, i think of telling you stories as like being at a party, since i know so many of you. i love this beautiful story, but please don't share the project news, especially if you're in the music biz.
as some of you know, i'm now in pr, classical music. one of our clients is the classical guitarist sharon isbin. she did a show out at the marin civic center last november, and i was able to arrange for paul liberatore of the marin independent journal (the ij) interview sharon, by phone, before the concert. he wrote a wonderful feature, and a great review. i liked working with him, as i'm from marin, remembered his byline, we reminisced, etc. and sharon was quite happy with the coverage. sharon came by the office today and told us this amazing sequel. she's working on a project concerning joan baez. she contacted baez' people to clear it and has commissioned a guitar concerto based on baez songs sharon chose, with a title song sharon chose. the piece is well along. when baez played in new york recently, one of the folks asked sharon if she wanted a ticket and a backstage pass. she saw the concert, went backstage, a group of people were waiting to meet joan, and someone said, 'aren't you sharon isbin?' paul liberatore introduced himself and sharon said ' oh, you're the one who wrote that terrific feature and review.' they began chatting as they waited. sharon asked if he knew baez, he said yes, she asked if he'd handle the introduction (they hadn't yet met during the project discussions), he agreed but joan met sharon with a hug and they all went to the dressing room and had champagne. so it was a great experience so far. but somewhere in there she learned that paul liberatore, ij journalist, was married to mimi farina for the last four years of her life. so he had originally interviewed sharon just a few months after farina died. sharon had met farina many years ago, had done a coffee house benefit in san francisco. so the experience of finding all these interconnections between people in such unlikely circumstances, made it an intense evening. i thought some of you'd appreciate this. patrick np - eva cassidy - time after time and then les arts florissant - charpentier - la pierre philosophale [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]
