February 13, 2005
About Me
I, David Richmond, am a music concentrator at Harvard in the class of 2006. A bassoonist and occasional pianist, past haunts besides Cambridge, Massachusetts have included:
- Portland, Oregon, where I graduated from Beaverton High School (class of 2002) and played in the Portland Youth Philharmonic and Metropolitan Youth Symphony.
- Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan, where I spent the summers of 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.
- Aspen, Colorado, where I spent the summers of 2004 and 2005 playing the bassoon at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Further knowledge of my past will vary depending on whether you've known me since birth, since stumbling upon this newly renovated corner of the world, or since sometime in between. Longtime watchers of this domain will remember a hacked-together version of this same site, poorly written in Perl, very slow, and usually inactive. Said site still exists in the darkened back rooms of this server; old posts may be resurrected as the mood strikes me. I may even get around (eventually) to archiving the whole damn thing.
I got around to doing something once again with this domain primarily because AIM's 1024 character limit on profile space just wasn't cutting it anymore (although it's sometimes a useful constraint). I also occasionally have the desire to write about things not directly related to a course I'm taking. Who knew?
I am joined at Harvard by my twin sister Emily. My younger sister, Leslie, is a flutist at Rice University's Shepard School of Music in Houston, Texas. I have no pets, and I like dark chocolate and cheddar cheese (the only kind worthy of the name). You can reach me at drich@symphonicman.com. My public key is here. If you don't know what that means, and you're curious, here's my primer on PGP encryption.
Last updated: 30 August 2005
Posted by David Richmond at February 13, 2005 8:45 PM EST
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Well, *I* think the original site was quite an accomplishment for its time. Nonetheless, I'm delighted to see Rev 2.0 with its much nicer interface.
Posted by: Mike (Dad) Richmond at February 13, 2005 11:27 PM
Interesting blog I must say. Shall I suggest shortening of the sentences?
Posted by: Lalit at January 31, 2006 7:50 PM
Hi, David, I enjoyed talking with you in Houston a few days ago; hope you had a good trip back!
Posted by: Linda at February 2, 2006 3:57 PM
Well, symphonicman, (or is that Symphonic Man?) this certainly answers the dinnertime question, "Has anyone heard from any of the Richmonds lately?"
FYI, T4 is playing trombone with the Austin Civic Wind Ensemble and a British Brass Band as well as two (GASP!) polka bands. His day job is finishing his masters in acoustical engineering at utexas.edu in Austin, just a little ways down the road from Leslie. He's doing primary research on manipulating bubbles in liquid media. They'll keep him for his PdD.
Katie managed all the student volunteers that put FOB together at uoregon.edu as vice president of the Oregon Band as a soph and jr, and is one of the drum majors for her sr. year. She left this morning for the PAC10 basketball tournaments in southern CA as equipment mgr for the Oregon Basketball Band. She's been playing in the Oregon Symphonic Band all three years and works in the Band Office as well.
Can't wait to read through all of your postings.
Good to find you. All 4 of us think of all of the Richmonds frequently.
Posted by: Ted Argo (old) at March 3, 2006 5:31 PM