NYT:

Lately, it has been hard to go anywhere in the Bay Area without stumbling across a wind ensemble essaying John Adams in an art gallery or a string quartet playing Beethoven in a wine bar.

If there were any place on the planet where nearly fifty percent of the surface area was occupied by wine bars where people were playing Beethoven, I’d move there instantly. That sounds like a place with priorities I can understand.

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  5. Um, no, I sit in Berkeley right now and you’re more likely to hear Lady Gaga or an awesome street band rocking out in the city than you are to hear Beethoven or John Adams, despite the strong classical scene here.

  8. I think that scene actually came from a South Park episode, the one where the people of San Francisco stood around savoring the smell of their own farts.

  10. Well, it wasn’t classical, but yesterday, I took my bike to Lake Meridian to attend the Concerts in the Park series.

    http://www.ci.kent.wa.us/content.aspx?id…

    Cacada de Flores was the act and it was beautiful and mellifluous as the sun set on the wind surfers and kids bathing in the lake. (They opened with some recorded music including renditions of Ziggy Stardust songs in Spanish…very wild.)

    http://www.cascadadeflores.com/

    But you don’t believe me.

    Because stuff like that only happens “in Seattle” …

  11. the bay aria is a lovely place, and has much to recommend it, but I have never seen a single wine bar where live musicians played Beethoven, or an art gallery with any soft of wind ensemble aside from drifting mobiles.

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