FRIENDS WITH WEBSITES

  
  AMY SUE BARSTON is a cellist who recently dazzled Salt Lake City audences by squeezing "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" into a cadenza of the Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major. She is also my lovely bride.<http://www.amybarston.com>  
    JANNA BATY is a soprano whose amazing voice is especially radiant in the music of the "Three Bs" - Birtwistle, Berio, and Britten. <http://www.jannabaty.com>  
  DAVID CUTLER is my cousin, also a composer (go figure), and has a new website called "Trunk Music." <http://www.trunkmusic.org>  
  DENNIS DESANTIS is a techno star and classical musician who recently returned to America from a too-long stint in Berlin. welcome back, Dennis! <http://www.dennisdesantis.com>  
    DANIEL FELSENFELD is a provcative blogger and a great opera composer! <http://felsenmusick.blogspot.com>  
  SHMUEL YANKEL GOLDSTEIN is my earliest-known ancestor. This website is based on a family tree of his descendants. <http://www.adambsilverman.com/shmuelyankeldescendants>  
  GEORGINA GROSVENOR is a much-missed friend who passed away in 2003. This website is a tribute to her, and features beautiful photography by her husband, Peter Mitev. <http://www.georginagrosvenor.org>  
    TODD GRIFFIN is a singer/songwriter guitarist. Someone once described his tunes as "porch techno." I don't know what that means, but it sounds good. <http://www.shinylittlerecords.com>  
  SARAH LEFTON is the creator of Jewish Fashion Conspiracy. She took on Skyy Vodka when they launched a misogynistic ad campaign on her street-corner. <http://www.lefton.net>  
  DANIEL LIPPEL is a thoughtful and eclectic guitarist who loves to new and old music, by dead guys like Bach and young guys like me (and young gals like Orianna Webb). Dan is a poker-night favorite. <http://www.danlippel.com>  
 

BLAIR MCMILLEN is a pianist who played my piece Those Mean Reds twice and still talks to me despite it. <http://www.blairmcmillen.com>

  
    SAM NELSON created "Sam's Publishing System," an open-source application that drives jaw-dropping websites. He also knows about a thousand different varieties of Poker, including one named for him - "Nelson Throwdown." <http://www.clevernamehere.com> Sam is also the director of the Institute For Progressive Astronomy - an organization on the vanguard of geocentrist theory.  
  NURIT PACHT plays violin and has created a wonderous little child named Carmel, one of the youngest people I know. <http://www.pacht.com/nurit>  
    ALAN PIERSON conducts Alarm Will Sound, just about the only orchestra I would describe as "exciting." <http://www.alarmwillsound.com>  
    EOIN RUSSELL is a guitarist, composer, social critic and media entrepeneur who has recorded a shred-metal arrangement of Mozart's Queen of the Night [mp3]. Ask him why most self-proclaimed "music fans" don't really like music. <http://www.eoinrussell.com>  
  JOEL SILVERMAN is a photographer based in New York City and Atlanta who can make you and your baby look like movie-stars. <http://www.silvermanphoto.com>  
  MARK SILVERMAN, my father, is the latest member of my family to gain a website. He is a cardiologist, medical historian, and is known for dressing up as William Harvey, the 16th century discoverer of circulation in humans. <http://www.marksilvermanmd.com>  
    DOUG WAMBLE is a blues, gospel, and jazz guitarist/singer/composer whose records are released on Marsalis Music. <http://www.dougwamble.com>  
  AMELIA WATKINS is a soprano singer who dazzled Carnegie Hall concertgoers as a soloist in Mozart's Mass in C Major and can sing Heart's "Barracuda" with uncanny stylistic accuracy. <http://www.ameliawatkins.com>