days without a job

Today’s cultural event included an intricately played and sung performance of Schubert’s Winterreise at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall. We learnt it was Samuel Beckett’s favorite piece of music, which is not surprising! Mark Padmore was divine, delivering the notes crisply and clearly and beautifully. The jazz pianist Ethan Iverson (from TBP - The Bad […]

Lisa had her portuguese lesson with Wanda. On skype, as usual. Went smoothly.
Next on the agenda, was a trip down to the West Village to an acquaintance’s apartment (in the old Fleischman factory building). Jennifer Tao came and played piano for us - an hour and a half worth of beautiful music on a […]

Avery Fisher Hall, last night, October 17, 2007. Imogen Cooper playing Mozart’s last Piano Concerto (No. 27 in B-flat major, K595 - 1791). Her playing evoked the following writing from me:
“The notes, created by effortless stroking, individually and in single file, flowed form the piano and traveled seamlessly to trickle into my eardrums and tickle […]

The Osesp, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, the Symphony Orchestra of the State of São Paulo, was in Paris, and hailed by the french daily “Le Monde“. And on the front page no less, amidst election articles.
“On Thursday May 29, Parisians will discover Osesp, the most prestigious brazilian orchestra.” The subtitle continues its […]

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: the quartet gave a great concert last week at Jones Beach. It’s interesting to be in a crowd of older people… there is less manic energy, more of a staid (not stale) kind of vibe. The musicians still have it all: acoustic and electric, they drove home the statement that […]