2 posts tagged “wikipedia”
I must have missed the roll-out of this feature, so I may as well mention it here.
Google Maps has a new major mode: "More" (next to Street View and Traffic.)
Under "More" I now find "Photos" and "Wikipedia."
This shows that North Beach in San Francisco is perhaps overrepresented in photography, and underrepresented in Wikipedia.
The Google Maps plus Wikipedia feature may be defective or incomplete. For example, I find it very difficult to believe that Fog City Diner has a wikipedia entry while City Lights Bookstore does not. See for yourself, then weep for the forgotten poets.
didn't have a wikipedia entry,
so I got one started for her.
I had my first little wiki war,
but her page and I survived.
It's been edited some by others,
no vandals, so I think my first
major wikipedia contribution
was a success.
I'll just excerpt a little here....
Sarah Cahill (pianist)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Categories: Living people | 1960s births | Classical pianists | American classical pianists | American writers
Sarah Cahill is an American pianist born in Washington, D.C. and long time resident of Berkeley, California. She is best known for insightful performances of new works, many of them written for her. Sarah has also established a reputation both as a writer on music and as a radio show host.
Biography
Sarah Cahill has commissioned, premiered and recorded numerous ground-breaking works for solo piano. Compositions dedicated to her include John Adams’ China Gates, Frederic Rzewski’s Snippets 2, Pauline Oliveros’ Quintuplets for Play Pen, and Kyle Gann's Private Dances and On Reading Emerson. She has also premiered works by Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Evan Ziporyn, Julia Wolfe, Ingram Marshall, Ursula Mamlok, George Lewis, Leo Ornstein and many others.
Sarah's far ranging musical tastes often take her into unexplored territory. Other projects developed and/or curated by Cahill include Playdate, a group of commissioned pieces about childhood combined with classical works; the commission of an evening of new scores for four hands by Terry Riley, performed with pianist Joseph Kubera; and a concert of recent Italian music, featuring premieres by Luciano Chessa, Andrea Morricone, and others.
One of Sarah's other projects is Bay Area Pianists, an organization she founded in 1993. In 1996, in association with New Music Bay Area, Sarah created the annual Garden of Memory walk-through concert at the Julia Morgan-designed Chapel of the Chimes wherein audience members move through the environment with new music ensembles performing simultaneously throughout the spaces. In 2003 she co-curated the Berkeley Edge Fest at Cal Performances.
As a radio personality Sarah has hosted weekly radio shows on the classical and contemporary music scenes on both KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, where her program was cited as "One of the 100 Best Things in the Bay Area" by Citysearch magazine, and on KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco.
Sarah investigated the impact early 20th-century American modernists had on the composers of her time. She explored these influences in concert programs at the Miller Theater, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Galapagos Art Space, Spoleto Festival USA, the Phillips Collection, the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. (part of the Smithsonian Piano 300 gala), and at the Other Minds festival in San Francisco. She has also performed at the Nuovi Spazi Musicali festival at the American Academy in Rome, the Santa Fe New Music Series, and at the Pacific Crossings Festival in Tokyo, Japan.
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