Post-Show Review: Chris Thile, Solo
Photo by Michael McCauslin (Wikimedia Commons) Lately I've been into taking notes during shows. Not exactly reviewer-on-assignment type notes, but more like ideas that pop into my head over the course of a performance: things that I notice that I'd like to steal, things that I notice I really don't like and wouldn't want in my own playing, and other general miscellanea. My best thoughts reveal themselves to me at performances that are particularly novel or creative, which was the case tonight. Chris Thile, mandolinist and MacArthur genius, played a two-hour show (no intermission) at Sanders Theater on campus, which was where I saw Wynton play a couple weeks back and where I've taken intro computer science and classical Chinese philosophy, among other things. I had heard Chris play with Brad Mehldau in April at the Berklee Performance Center (they played "I Cover the Waterfront" as an encore, which was tremendous and made that a must-know tune for m