Larry at Stanford

One of the nice things about playing music is that it affords you interesting opportunities. Just such an opportunity arose last week when I was able to travel out to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and play a piece by my good friend Rocco Di Pietro. A lot of people that I went to school with went to prestigious schools like Harvard and Stanford and others, and that still smarts a bit all of these years later. So it was nice to be part of such as well-known school, even if just for a couple of days.

Rocco is an artist-in-residence at CCRMA, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and there was a winter concert on Thursday, February 12, in which his piece Later was to be the final piece. The performance hall was especially nice: nice wood floors, state of the art equipment, and 16 speakers hung from the ceiling.

Of course, the facilities at Stanford were amazing. And the people were super nice to me and to my daughter, who was traveling with me. The concert went really well and the piece was very well received. I hope to be able to go back sometime.