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Hotel Grand Pacific Meridian
Meridian Hotels recently became part of SPG, which has made this hotel easier to stay at. When I have to be up unusually early the next morning, I stay here. My other option is the…
Chamber Music at Home
While sorting through some CDs and cassette tapes, I found a tape from my high-school days: a Telemann quartet. Bassoon × 1, flute × 2, and continuo, consisting of harpsichord and…
Suor Angelica
I went to see Puccini’s opera Suor Angelica. An acquaintance of mine, conductor Hirofumi Yoshida (principal permanent conductor of the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy), ret…
Amber India Restaurant
Today I went to Santana Row and had a meal. It was at an Indian restaurant called Amber, which I highly recommend. http://www.amber-india.com/ Today I had lemongrass and tomato sou…
Mozart’s Requiem at Stanford
We went out to Palo Alto for dinner. On the way, A said that he had never seen Stanford, so we stopped by. They happened to be rehearsing Mozart’s Requiem in the chapel. They…
W Sillicon Valley
Perhaps because the dates overlapped with JavaOne, I could not find a hotel at all and ended up staying at the W Sillicon Valley in Newark. Its exterior looks somewhat like a castl…
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