Blues Alley: Peter White

Peter White is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion guitarist. The music was so great, that I can ignore that Peter appeared to be tired and not very engaging after the performance.  I really enjoyed his performance with Gregg Karukas and Vincent Ingala! Vincent is such a gifted saxophone player and he is only 21 yr old, simply amazing!

TwinOaks Estate

TwinOaks Estate was a home to nine ROC Ambassadors, a National Historic Site, and a Symbol of Friendship with the United States. I heard about it for a long time and finally visited it with a Taiwanese intellectual property delegation.
 

It is situated atop a hill on a parcel of land once owned by a one-legged Revolutionary War general is a 26-room mansion that served as the official residence of nine ambassadors from the Republic of China (ROC) between 1937 and 1978 and which still belongs to the ROC government in Taiwan. 

The land upon which Twin Oaks rests belonged originally to Uriah Forrest, an American general in the Revolutionary War, a member of the first Continental Congress, and one of Maryland's first delegates to the U.S. Congress.  

I enjoyed the estate's gardens, its Georgian Revival architecture, and its priceless Ch'ing dynasty antiques. 

Nordic Cool 2013 in Kennedy Center

February 19-March 17, 2013, the Kennedy Center presents Nordic Cool 2013, a month-long international festival of theater, dance, music, visual arts, literature, design, cuisine, and film to highlight the diverse cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as the territories of Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Áland Islands.

    
I watched a play "Bird in Magic Rain with Tears" - U.S. PREMIERE, on 2/21/2013. This multimedia two-act play revolves around the intertwined fates of three characters--a conceptual artist grieving over her son's death, a boy-prostitute searching for the truth about his past, and a terminally ill businessman longing for love.

I also attended Iceland Symphony Orchestra 3/4/2013 : Ilan Volkov, conductor, Garrick Ohlsson, piano. I only stayed for VILMARSSON: bd (U.S. Premiere) and GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16. I was more impressed by Rasmus Lyberth who is a Greenlander, singer/songwriter who has powerful voice and hand gestures and Greta Sundström who is an Åland Islander accordion player who played classical pieces to folk music and dance-friendly pop tunes.