Performed at a benefit last night for the first and only Spanish school in New York, the Centro Educativo Español de Nueva York, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side. Spanish people sure know how to throw a party! The guests were incredibly stylish and the food was delicious. They had even brought in a huge ham and were slicing little pieces of it all night long.
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Last week I posed as a professor of radiology from the University of Wisconsin at a Siemens sales meeting down in sunny Florida. For a few minutes, I appeared to be just another boring clinical speaker talking about the greater efficiencies gained by using Siemens equipment, and then… everything started to go awry and the ‘lecture’ turned into a funny interactive show.
My friend Thomas Fraps in Munich developed this concept over the past 10 years and is now working with me on expanding it in North America. There seems to be quite a demand. It certainly was a fun show to work on, and many of the meeting participants mentioned that it was the highlight of the conference!
This week I performed at a party at Luxembourg House in New York, to kick off a conference about education in Luxembourg. Until 2003 — when the Grand-Duchy’s first and only university was founded — Luxembourgers wanting to go to college would have to study abroad. This conference brought together educators and business people.
I was invited by Michel Franck, who is not only the President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, but also the architect who supervised the renovation of the Luxembourg House after its previous owner, Irving Berlin passed away.
In my show I celebrated music from Luxembourg by playing some songs from the Eurovision Song Contest. Luxembourgers in attendance got a bit nostalgic when hearing the 1965 winner France Gall sing “Poupée de cire, poupée de son“…
