5/10, 5/14, and 5/17: The Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Tan Dun’s The First Emperor for a run of 3 performances only. I’ll be in the stone drum band once again, dressed as a chinese soldier. Check out my previous post, including a super-awesome picture of Tan Dun (and me?!) here, and get all the specifics for these three shows here.

On a totally unrelated side note: I finally got recordings from the DIA Center Fall Benefit performance of John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No. 3, which I wrote about here back in November. The performance was not open to the public but through the magic of digital audio recording robots, it can be experienced by clicking below:

Imaginary Landscape No. 3 for six percussionists, by John Cage.
Michael Caterizano, David Mancuso, Eric Poland, Chris Thompson, Joe Tompkins, Yuri Yamashita. Recorded live on November 12, 2007.