Splendid story indeed, patrick! Sharon Isbin is a captivating talent, and you may recall that I place her high on my list of the world's greatest guitarists. I'm dumbfounded that you actually work with her. How fascinating. Such a small, small world.
A variations on Baez themes guitar concerto, played by Isbin, is intriguing! It's interesting to ponder a classical adaptation of a fundamentally folk ethos. I'm looking forward to hearing it. Thanks for sharing. (I'll keep it under my hat : ) Kicking myself that I missed her at the Marin Civic last November in my own back yard. Please, keep me in the loop on her performances going forward. Can you email me the IJ piece? Interconnections in unlikely circumstances. Well said. How wonderful for you to have been privy! Just yesterday I was in the building that is home to the Bread and Roses Foundation on business, right here in my little Marin County California town. My thoughts turned to Mimi and Joan, naturally. Such a body of work Joan Baez has amassed. Her first album came out in 1959 (Folksingers Around Harvard Square). An Isbin concerto tribute to her musical legacy is altogether fitting and proper, I think. Thanks again for the info. -Julius > 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]
