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My saxophone and clarinet students recently performed their socks off in the Spring recital entitled Bella A Cappella. Ten select students, age 8 (!) to 53, performed from the Hite etudes for clarinet and Voxman studies for saxophone, as well as some familiar melodies; Washington Post, Scotland the Brave, and a flamenco.

At left, the students perform a J. Hiller chorale before their solos, as a warm-up. Everyone entertained the 50+ audience wonderfully. They celebrated the successful performance with refreshments while visiting with their fans. The next recital for the students of Grace Notes Music Studio will be in November of this year.

There are many conferences around the US for web designers, web developers, multimedia peeps, and other folks with a keen interest in the world wide web. Conferences like SXSW, which was just held in Austin last month; or the Usability Week 2007 conference in San Francisco, one of four locations; or a little close to home, Web Design World in Seattle this July.
Here in Portland, we are fortunate to experience WebVisions for the 7th year. WebVisions was conceived by Brad Smith and Susan Prior of Hot Pepper Studios in Portland. From the website: “WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web. Be ready to network, share ideas and be inspired by an all-star lineup of speakers.”
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine of AskANinja.com will be delivering the keynote on Friday afternoon.

Sounds tempting, eh? Register today and I’ll see you there.
WebVisions 2007
May 3-4 in Portland, OR
Explore the Future of the Web

It’s that time of year in Oregon when Mac enthusiasts converge on Silver Falls State Park for some high-quality hiking.
Hiking?!? Hardly.

We go to Silver Falls for MacCamp, a weekend-long event with Mac-focused classes, networking [wireless and verbal ;-) ], good food, new friends, and into-the-wee-hours Warcraft sessions.

Classes for the April 20-21-22 gathering include: Leopard (OS 10.5), GarageBand, Entourage, iPhoto, iWeb, System Preferences. Two sessions each are held Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning. A special addition to this MacCamp is a Saturday evening session led by Rob Griffiths, in which he will run a 20-question Jeopardy-style quiz on OS X.

While all these valuable workshops will keep one busy, I do actually recommend that you get out and take a hike. Silver Falls State Park is well-named for the many waterfalls dotting the trails throughout. One year, I brought my off-road bicycle for a wonderfully muddy ride.

Sign up for MacCamp.