Thanks to Seth Nickell, aka herring on Gnome IRC, at Eazel, it looks very likely that the recital broadcast will happen.
The recital is on October 29 at 7:30pm (Central time). You can listen to it via streaming mp3 by pointing your browser to http://beauty.stanford.edu/.
Things are still not definite, but they are looking very good.
So, our second violinist is back from Italy. She got to the semi-final round of her competition. That’s very good! I’m very happy for her. And so, our quartet meets finally tomorrow night. We’re scheduled to perform, I believe, on November 16 at Southern Methodist University. I’ll post more details about that.
On that topic, I bought a CD of the Alban Berg Quartet performing Death and the Maiden, which is what my quartet is working on. The first time I listened to it, I absolutely couldn’t stand it. Part of that, I realized, was that I listened to it the stereo in one of the classrooms at school that I practice in, and that stereo sucks, so the recording sounded really top-heavy. But now I put it on my CD player at home that has some concept of balance, and it sounds very nice. They take the entire piece much faster than my quartet does, and I’m not used to that. Plus, they seem to just follow repeated sections randomly in the second movement. But, otherwise, I think the recording is nice and it’s really growing on me.
In other news, some Gnome people know I’ve been hacking on Bonobo’s toolbar to do theme-independent full-byte alpha compositing of button icons. I’m still not quite finished, but you can see some of the progress I’ve made on it by clicking on this. I just need to do some changes to support the way pre-lighting works, and I’ll be done.
I’d like to mention, also, that filling out applications for schools sucks!! I was working on my CIM application last night using the online application. Today someone sent me a link to sometime, and when I clicked the link it opened it using the browser that contained my CIM application. And, so, that application is now lost. Time to start over. 
