Today's Dose of Strangeness.
Feb. 11th, 2008 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sechan19Received in today's batch of email:
"Dear Professor Jones,
The Silken Phoenix is a live music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion), based on the lives of three extraordinary Asian women poets: Ho Xuan Huong of Vietnam, Izumi Shikibu from Japan, and China’s Li Qingzhao. All are strong personalities and vibrant writers, with direct and immediate appeal to audiences today. The musical score is drawn from the work of outstanding contemporary Asian and Asian-American composers. The Silken Phoenix will tour in October and November, 2008, and March and April, 2009. If a performance might be of interest for your campus, I would be happy to forward a demo DVD and printed materials for your consideration."
All bolding in the excerpt is verbatim. The email was signed "Cordially" from some person who apparently thinks I'm a professor. I'm not sure how they got that impression (or, for that matter, my private [not school] email address), but it certainly amused me for about three minutes, which--these days--is a good thing.
"Dear Professor Jones,
The Silken Phoenix is a live music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion), based on the lives of three extraordinary Asian women poets: Ho Xuan Huong of Vietnam, Izumi Shikibu from Japan, and China’s Li Qingzhao. All are strong personalities and vibrant writers, with direct and immediate appeal to audiences today. The musical score is drawn from the work of outstanding contemporary Asian and Asian-American composers. The Silken Phoenix will tour in October and November, 2008, and March and April, 2009. If a performance might be of interest for your campus, I would be happy to forward a demo DVD and printed materials for your consideration."
All bolding in the excerpt is verbatim. The email was signed "Cordially" from some person who apparently thinks I'm a professor. I'm not sure how they got that impression (or, for that matter, my private [not school] email address), but it certainly amused me for about three minutes, which--these days--is a good thing.
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Date: 2008-02-12 12:39 am (UTC)