Place: St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University 11th & Marion - somewhere that evokes loss and memory.

People should sleep with Dr. Tom Baker just so they can say they've been intimate with greatness. Busy with hosting the Seattle Composer's Salon, Tom sent me this right in the middle of producing his uber-awesome opera The Gospel of the Red Hot Stars.

"What I did was use the original as a formal plan and structural guide, and try to mimic the articulations from the original in the new piece. I used 3 sounds, all collected last summer at a cabin that had been in my family for 40 years until they sold it this November."

For more information about Tom, go to www.TomBakerComposer.com.

MCBT (from Mike to Chris through Ben to Tom)