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Every Tuesday I offer three web finds that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (12/16/2008):

Stevn Schick was the percussionist of the NY based contemporary music group ‘Bang on a Can’. At the same time he performed as an acclaimed solo percussionist. Watch his performance ‘?Corporal’ here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxd1ko9QTE
and a clip of Don Byron playing with ‘The Bang on a Can All-Stars’ here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szu8P5a9yyw

Though he didn’t bang on a can, the Renaissance composer Gesualdo had quite a tortured life which affected relationships around him to the extent of triple murder. Some of his unusually chromatic music is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_q3EJNUKis&feature=related

Had Mathieu Ricard and his fellow inquisitive (buddhist) researchers lived at Gesualdo’s time they might have been able to help him in becoming a happy adn peaceful person:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3046&utm_source=15dec08&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8_tnDalai

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