1. Jazz trumpeter (that really doesn't cover his significance in my view, but I'll go with it) Wynton Marsalis and educator Davey Yarborough of Washington D.C.'s Duke Ellington School for the Arts talked with CNN about jazz education: Changing kids' lives through jazz. The Celebrity Series brings Wynton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Boston on March 15 at Symphony Hall.
2. Tenor Ian Bostridge (making his Celebrity Series debut April 3) has written a piece for The Times (UK) on the letters of composer Benjamin Britten. The article begins with this line from Britten:
"O dear, o dear, how I sometimes wish I were respectable & dead, & that
people wouldn’t get so cross."
Read all of The Court of Benjamin Britten.
3. Apparently, the El Paso Golf Club in Kappa, Illinois is getting a bit cross with young Curt Hocker, the twenty-two year-old golfer who has achieved golf's near impossible hole-in-one at his local course, not once, not twice, but five times.
The problem comes with the "hole-in-one insurance" his club membership affords him; instead of honoring the tradition that the lucky golfer buys a round of drinks for the entire clubhouse, the El Paso Golf Club picks up the tab per his membership agreement - each and every time. Five rounds and counting. Here is the story from Fox Sports. It's a pity to think of a life peaking so early.
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