6/5/2002. This year has been surprisingly productive for me, all things considered. I helped Naum Lisitza record his first album "In the rhythm of rain ", collaborated on and recorded Volodya Muzikantov's new album "Cosmopolitan", and finally managed to complete my second CD, "Self-portrait". It contains songs to the poetry of the Joseph Brodsky, Marina Garber, Gary Lite and Bahit Kenjeev. Also, there were several concerts in the Philadelphia area and one benefit in which I took part along with V.Krastoshevsky, V. Muzikantov, V. Stolyarov, A. Stolyarov, N. Lisitza and family, S. Schalatsky & A. Ginsberg, with all tickets sales going to charities to supports families of victims of terror in Israel. We had collected $1,250.00 and it was sent to Israel Emergency Fund/One Family and to a Rehabilitation hospital in Israel.