February 2003

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Saturday	02/01/2003 New Moon at 2:48 AM PST Chinese New Year! Year of the Black Sheep	Dinner @ O'Mei Provincial Chinese Cuisine, Santa Cruz, with TC & Kaoru Hesperus & Bonnie Rideout @ UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, U.C. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, with TC & Kaoru	Clark Gable (1901); Terry Jones (1942); Sonny Landreth (1951); Dennis Brown (1957)	Herb Caen (1997, lung cancer); Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria (2003, stroke)
Sunday	02/02/2003	Advanced HKD Workout, with Chris Peterson Regular HKD Workout Chinese New Year's Dinner @ Siu-Fai's place Salvatore Licitra @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley, with mom! Program Notes Elena Park's promotional article for SFGate. Robert Commanday's review for San Francisco Classical Voice. Joshua Kosman's review for SFGate. Other reviews (eg., Georgia Rowe, for the San Jose Mercury News; and Stephanie von Buchau, for the Oakland Tribune) are not freely available online at this time.	Stanley Getz (1927); Graham Nash (1942)	John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1979, Heroin O.D.); Lou Henry Harrison (2003, heart attack); Eric Von Schmidt (2007)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Someday

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

Regular event

Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Saturday

02/01/2003

New Moon, day 01 of lunar cycle New Moon at 2:48 AM PST

Chinese New Year! Year of the Black Sheep

Dinner @ O'Mei Provincial Chinese Cuisine, Santa Cruz,
with TC & Kaoru

Hesperus & Bonnie Rideout @ UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, U.C. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz,
with TC & Kaoru

Clark Gable (1901);
Terry Jones (1942);
Sonny Landreth (1951);
Dennis Brown (1957)

Herb Caen (1997, lung cancer);
Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria (2003, stroke)

Sunday

02/02/2003

day 02 of lunar cycle

Advanced HKD Workout, with Chris Peterson

Regular HKD Workout

Chinese New Year's Dinner @ Siu-Fai's place

Salvatore Licitra @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley, with mom!
Program Notes
Elena Park's promotional article for SFGate.
Robert Commanday's review for San Francisco Classical Voice.
Joshua Kosman's review for SFGate.
Other reviews (eg., Georgia Rowe, for the San Jose Mercury News; and Stephanie von Buchau, for the Oakland Tribune) are not freely available online at this time.

Stanley Getz (1927);
Graham Nash (1942)

needle and spoon
John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1979, Heroin O.D.);
Lou Henry Harrison (2003, heart attack);
Eric Von Schmidt (2007)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	02/03/2003	Morning HKD workout Advanced HKD class	Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809); Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1935); Dave Davies (1947)	"The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly, Jiles Perry 'the Big Bopper' Richardson and Ritchie Valens (1959, plane crash); Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)
Tuesday	02/04/2003			Adolphe Sax (1894); Louis Jordan (1975, heart attack); Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1987, AIDS); Kenneth 'Jethro' D. Burns (1989, bone cancer); James Louis 'J.J.' Johnson (2001)
Wednesday	02/05/2003	Morning HKD workout Feast of Fools @ Marine's Memorial Theatre, San Francisco; Winner of a 2003 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for solo performance by Geoff Hoyle. Dave Ford's promotional article for SFGate. Richard Conema's review for TalkinBroadway. Robert Hurwitt's review for SFGate. Arthur Lazere's review for CultureVulture. Other reviews (eg., Chad Jones, for the Oakland Tribune; and another (author unknown) for the Hayward Daily Review) are not freely available online at this time. Dinner @ Lori's Diner, San Francisco	Al Kooper (1944)	Al Kooper (1944)
Thursday	02/06/2003	Taekwondo!	Robert Nesta Marley (1945); Reggie Scanlan (1953)	Carl Dean Wilson (1998, lung cancer); Humphrey Fortescue Osmond (2004, coined the term psychedelic)
Friday	02/07/2003	HKD Ski Trip! Snow sporting @ Sierra-at-Tahoe Group dinner back at the cabin	James Hubert 'Eubie' Blake (1887); 'King' Curtis Ousley (1934); Solomon Johnson AKA Earl King (1934)	Eddie Jones AKA Guitar Slim (1959, pneumonia)
Saturday	02/08/2003	Snow sporting @ Sierra-at-Tahoe Group Dinner @ Sizzler, South Lake Tahoe, CA (Due to renovation of the shopping center and other properties there at the corner with Stateline, the Sizzler is now gone!)	Neal Cassady (1929); Floyd Dixon (1929)	Charles Weedon Westover AKA Del Shannon (1990, suicide); James Oscar 'Jimmy' Smith (2005, natural causes)
Sunday	02/09/2003 Waxing Quarter Moon at 3:11 AM the Beatles US debut on the Ed Sullivan show (1964)	Drive back from Tahoe with Cody		William John 'Bill' Haley (1981, brain tumor)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/03/2003

day 03 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809);
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1935);
Dave Davies (1947)

"The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly,
Jiles Perry 'the Big Bopper' Richardson
and Ritchie Valens (1959, plane crash);
Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)

Tuesday

02/04/2003

day 04 of lunar cycle

Adolphe Sax (1894);
Louis Jordan (1975, heart attack);
Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1987, AIDS);
Kenneth 'Jethro' D. Burns (1989, bone cancer);
James Louis 'J.J.' Johnson (2001)

Wednesday

02/05/2003

day 05 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Feast of Fools @ Marine's Memorial Theatre, San Francisco;
Winner of a 2003 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for solo performance by Geoff Hoyle.
Dave Ford's promotional article for SFGate.
Richard Conema's review for TalkinBroadway.
Robert Hurwitt's review for SFGate.
Arthur Lazere's review for CultureVulture.
Other reviews (eg., Chad Jones, for the Oakland Tribune; and another (author unknown) for the Hayward Daily Review) are not freely available online at this time.

Dinner @ Lori's Diner, San Francisco

Al Kooper (1944)

Thursday

02/06/2003

day 06 of lunar cycle

Taekwondo!

Robert Nesta Marley (1945);

Reggie Scanlan (1953)

Carl Dean Wilson (1998, lung cancer);
Humphrey Fortescue Osmond (2004, coined the term psychedelic)

Friday

02/07/2003

day 07 of lunar cycle

HKD Ski Trip! Snow sporting @ Sierra-at-Tahoe

Group dinner back at the cabin

James Hubert 'Eubie' Blake (1887);
'King' Curtis Ousley (1934);
Solomon Johnson AKA Earl King (1934)

Eddie Jones AKA Guitar Slim (1959, pneumonia)

Saturday

02/08/2003

day 08 of lunar cycle

Snow sporting @ Sierra-at-Tahoe

Group Dinner @ Sizzler, South Lake Tahoe, CA
(Due to renovation of the shopping center and other properties there at the corner with Stateline, the Sizzler is now gone!)

Neal Cassady (1929);
Floyd Dixon (1929)

smoking gun
Charles Weedon Westover AKA Del Shannon (1990, suicide);
James Oscar 'Jimmy' Smith (2005, natural causes)

Sunday

02/09/2003

Waxing Quarter Moon, day 09 of lunar cycle Waxing Quarter Moon at 3:11 AM

Beatles with Ed Sullivan
the Beatles US debut on the Ed Sullivan show (1964)

Drive back from Tahoe with Cody

William John 'Bill' Haley (1981, brain tumor)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	02/10/2003	Morning HKD workout Advanced HKD class
Tuesday	02/11/2003		Pop Tse's American Birthday! (1933)	John Arthur 'Jaki' Byard (1999, murdered)
Wednesday	02/12/2003	Morning HKD workout Lunch @ Tresidder Memorial Union, Stanford University with Steve Schneider and Siu-Fai Dinner @ Thai E Sun, Berkeley, with Dr. Lieu and Laura Dinner @ Palo Alto Sol, Palo Alto, with TC Cypress String Quartet with Geraldine Walther, viola, @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto (Stanford Lively Arts reference for the venue), with TC. Performing Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 46 in F minor, "The Razor", Op. 54, No. 2 (1788), Alban Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet, (1925-26), and Johannes Brahms: String Quintet, No. 2 in G, "Prater", Op. 111 (1890)	Ray Manzarek (1939); Steve Hackett (1950)	'Screamin' Jay Hawkins (2000, aneurysm)
Thursday	02/13/2003		'Tennessee' Ernie Ford (1919); Peter Tork (1942); Peter Gabriel (1950)	Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)
Friday	02/14/2003 St. Valentine's Day!	Dinner @ Estampas Peruanas, Redwood City, with Jeff & Shaula, Dennis & Nancy The Songwriters Tour, featuring: Lyle Pearce Lovett, John Hiatt, Guy Clark & Joe Ely, with surprise guest, Neil Young! @ Fox Theatre, Redwood City with Barry & Susan, TC & Kaoru, Jeff & Shaula, Dennis & Nancy. Setlist, per Jack Mauve. According to Lyle, the show was recorded for future commercial release...	Merl Saunders (1934); 'Magic' Sam Maghett (1937)
Saturday	02/15/2003			Nathaniel Adams Coles AKA Nat King Cole (1965, lung cancer); Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1968, street fight); Michael Bloomfield (1981, drug overdose);
Sunday	02/16/2003	HKD practice	Salvatore 'Sonny' Bono (1935)	Walter 'Brownie' McGhee (1996, stomach cancer)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/10/2003

day 10 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class

Tuesday

02/11/2003

day 11 of lunar cycle

Pop Tse's American Birthday! (1933)

RIP
John Arthur 'Jaki' Byard (1999, murdered)

Wednesday

02/12/2003

day 12 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Lunch @ Tresidder Memorial Union, Stanford University with Steve Schneider and Siu-Fai

Dinner @ Thai E Sun, Berkeley, with Dr. Lieu and Laura

Dinner @ Palo Alto Sol, Palo Alto, with TC

Cypress String Quartet with Geraldine Walther, viola, @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto
(Stanford Lively Arts reference for the venue), with TC.
Performing Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 46 in F minor, "The Razor", Op. 54, No. 2 (1788),
Alban Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet, (1925-26), and
Johannes Brahms: String Quintet, No. 2 in G, "Prater", Op. 111 (1890)

Ray Manzarek (1939);
Steve Hackett (1950)

'Screamin' Jay Hawkins (2000, aneurysm)

Thursday

02/13/2003

day 13 of lunar cycle

'Tennessee' Ernie Ford (1919);
Peter Tork (1942);
Peter Gabriel (1950)

Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)

Friday

02/14/2003

St. Valentine's Day!

day 14 of lunar cycle

Dinner @ Estampas Peruanas, Redwood City, with Jeff & Shaula, Dennis & Nancy

The Songwriters Tour, featuring: Lyle Pearce Lovett, John Hiatt, Guy Clark & Joe Ely, with surprise guest, Neil Young! @ Fox Theatre, Redwood City
with Barry & Susan, TC & Kaoru, Jeff & Shaula, Dennis & Nancy.
Setlist, per Jack Mauve.
According to Lyle, the show was recorded for future commercial release...

Merl Saunders (1934);
'Magic' Sam Maghett (1937)

Saturday

02/15/2003

day 15 of lunar cycle

Nathaniel Adams Coles AKA Nat King Cole (1965, lung cancer);
Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1968, street fight);
Michael Bloomfield (1981, drug overdose);

Sunday

02/16/2003

day 16 of lunar cycle

HKD practice

Salvatore 'Sonny' Bono (1935)

Walter 'Brownie' McGhee (1996, stomach cancer)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	02/17/2003			Giordano Bruno (1600, burned at the stake for heresy); Thelonius Sphere Monk (1982, stroke) Ray Barretto (2006)
Tuesday	02/18/2003 Full moon at 2:48 AM	Keiko Nosaka @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley Program Notes Heuwell Tircuit's review for San Francisco Classical Voice. Taekwondo UC Open Planning Meeting	Yoko Ono (1933)
Wednesday	02/19/2003	Morning HKD workout Dinner @ Joanne & Scott's place	William 'Smokey' Robinson (1940)	Lee Morgan (1972, murdered)
Thursday	02/20/2003	James Carter Organ Trio with David Murray @ Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland with Larry, Sameh, Jim & Joan Dan Oullette's promo article for the SF Chronicle Brief review at J-notes Other reviews (eg., Andrew Gilbert, for the San Jose Mercury News) are not freely available online at this time. Taekwondo Drinks and snacks @ Kip's	Walter Becker (1950); Randy Wolfe AKA Randy California (1951); Kurt Cobain (1967)
Friday	02/21/2003	Morning HKD workout	Andr�s Segovia (1893); Eunice Kathleen Waymon AKA Nina Simone (1933); Jerry Harrison (1949); Vince Welnick (1951); Mary Chapin-Carpenter (1958);	Bruce Hart (2006) - composed lyrics to the 'Sesame Street' theme
Saturday	02/22/2003	TKD Referee Seminar Chamber Works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Part III, Program II Robert Greenberg Lecture; Alexander String Quartet @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco (AM matinee); with mom. Performing Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1969), and String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp minor, Op. 142 (1972-73) Program Notes Lunch @ First Crush, San Francisco Alvin Ailey Dance Company @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley Octavio Roca's review for the SF Chronicle Suzanne Weiss' review for CultureVulture Other reviews (eg., Anita Amirrezvani, for the San Jose Mercury News) are not freely available online at this time.	Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810); Luis Bu�uel Portol�s (1900); Ernest Kador, Jr AKA Ernie K-Doe (1936)	Andy Warhol (1987, heart attack); John Aloysius Fahey (2001, heart disease/kidney failure)
Sunday	02/23/2003	HKD Workout Manuel Barrueco & Al DiMeola @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco	Johnny Winter (1944)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/17/2003

day 17 of lunar cycle

Giordano Bruno (1600, burned at the stake for heresy);
Thelonius Sphere Monk (1982, stroke)
Ray Barretto (2006)

Tuesday

02/18/2003

Full moon, day 18 of lunar cycle Full moon at 2:48 AM

Keiko Nosaka @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Program Notes
Heuwell Tircuit's review for San Francisco Classical Voice.

Taekwondo

UC Open Planning Meeting

Yoko Ono (1933)

Wednesday

02/19/2003

day 19 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Dinner @ Joanne & Scott's place

William 'Smokey' Robinson (1940)

Shot!
Lee Morgan (1972, murdered)

Thursday

02/20/2003

day 20 of lunar cycle

James Carter Organ Trio with David Murray @ Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland
with Larry, Sameh, Jim & Joan
Dan Oullette's promo article for the SF Chronicle
Brief review at J-notes
Other reviews (eg., Andrew Gilbert, for the San Jose Mercury News) are not freely available online at this time.

Taekwondo

Drinks and snacks @ Kip's

Walter Becker (1950);
Randy Wolfe AKA Randy California (1951);
Kurt Cobain (1967)

Friday

02/21/2003

day 21 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Andr�s Segovia (1893);
Eunice Kathleen Waymon AKA Nina Simone (1933);
Jerry Harrison (1949);
Vince Welnick (1951);
Mary Chapin-Carpenter (1958);

Bruce Hart (2006) - composed lyrics to the 'Sesame Street' theme

Saturday

02/22/2003

day 22 of lunar cycle

TKD Referee Seminar

Chamber Works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Part III, Program II
Robert Greenberg Lecture;
Alexander String Quartet @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco (AM matinee); with mom.
Performing Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1969), and
String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp minor, Op. 142 (1972-73)
Program Notes

Lunch @ First Crush, San Francisco

Alvin Ailey Dance Company @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley
Octavio Roca's review for the SF Chronicle
Suzanne Weiss' review for CultureVulture
Other reviews (eg., Anita Amirrezvani, for the San Jose Mercury News) are not freely available online at this time.

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810);
Luis Bu�uel Portol�s (1900);
Ernest Kador, Jr AKA Ernie K-Doe (1936)

Andy Warhol (1987, heart attack);
John Aloysius Fahey (2001, heart disease/kidney failure)

Sunday

02/23/2003

day 23 of lunar cycle

HKD Workout

Manuel Barrueco & Al DiMeola @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Johnny Winter (1944)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	02/24/2003	Morning HKD workout Advanced HKD workout San Francisco Contemporary Music Players & the San Francisco Chamber Singers (now performing as Volti @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, San Francisco performing: Melissa Hui: San Rocco (1991); Alfred Schnittke: Hymns I-IV, for violoncello and ensemble (1974-79); Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, (1974) Program Notes	Nicky Hopkins (1944)	John Peter Chatman AKA Memphis Slim (1988); 'Papa' John Creach (1994, heart failure); Don Knotts (2006); Leroy Jenkins (2007, lung cancer)
Tuesday	02/25/2003 Waning Quarter Moon at 0:33 AM!		George Harrison (1943)
Wednesday	02/26/2003	Visiting Sameh & Kim in Albany Dinner @ Kasuga Japanese Restaurant, Albany	Antoine 'Fats' Domino (1928); John R. Cash (1932)	Cuauhtemoc, last King of the Aztecs (1525, executed); Major Merriweather AKA 'Big Maceo' (1953, heart attack); Booker T. Washington 'Bukka' White (1977, cancer); Othar Turner (2003)
Thursday	02/27/2003	Taekwondo UC Open Planning Meeting		Mr. Fred McFeely Rogers (2003, stomach cancer)
Friday	02/28/2003	Morning HKD Workout Lunch @ Seasonal Sushi, Redwood City, with Jean-Cristophe	John Aloysius Fahey (1939); Brian Jones (1942)	Howie Epstein (2003, heroin O.D.)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/24/2003

day 24 of lunar cycle

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD workout

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players & the San Francisco Chamber Singers (now performing as Volti @ First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, San Francisco
performing: Melissa Hui: San Rocco (1991);
Alfred Schnittke: Hymns I-IV, for violoncello and ensemble (1974-79);
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, (1974)
Program Notes

Nicky Hopkins (1944)

John Peter Chatman AKA Memphis Slim (1988);
'Papa' John Creach (1994, heart failure);
Don Knotts (2006);
Leroy Jenkins (2007, lung cancer)

Tuesday

02/25/2003

Waning Quarter Moon, day 25 of lunar cycle Waning Quarter Moon at 0:33 AM!

George Harrison (1943)

Wednesday

02/26/2003

day 26 of lunar cycle

Visiting Sameh & Kim in Albany

Dinner @ Kasuga Japanese Restaurant, Albany

Antoine 'Fats' Domino (1928);
John R. Cash (1932)

Cuauhtemoc, last King of the Aztecs (1525, executed);
Major Merriweather AKA 'Big Maceo' (1953, heart attack);
Booker T. Washington 'Bukka' White (1977, cancer);
Othar Turner (2003)

Thursday

02/27/2003

day 27 of lunar cycle