Saturday
Breakfast at Bob’s Diner followed by brief shopping.
Drove to Albany in mid afternoon.
Albany Institute of History and Art.
Category Archives: Music/Theater
Saturday – 11/26/2016
Breakfast with Esther and Rose Hanig. They talked a lot.
a moment of brightness.
Puttered around the rest of the day.
Mexican Radio, Schenectady, NY
Drove to Schenectady for a play at Proctors. Dinner at Mexican Radio. Mark Young came by and chatted pretty extensively.
Proctors
Saturday – 11/5/2016
Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Price Chopper, & farmer’s market.
Then I drove to Walmart for tennis balls and 3-in-One oil; then to the bank for cash and a stop at Fairview Wine.
Gallery watch until 3pm.
Tennis at CGCC with Ted Dewsnap. Unusually we played a set. I won 6-2.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra: Beethoven’s Leonora Overture; Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; and Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. We sat in Row H. unusually close to the orchestra. The strings seemed on top of us. The balance was not what I usually like. Next time we will try seats back around Row T.
Saturday – 2/13/2016 – HAL Event & Music
Breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
a presentation sponsored by the library at the Montgomery C Smith Intermediate School. Sold out crowd – mostly school kids and parents – extremely cold and windy afternoon.
Music at Bard in the Evening
More Cold.
Saturday – 11/28/2015
Late start – breakfast at Bob’s at 9am. Somewhat depressing talk about DOG and DOE. Shopping at Price Chopper.
Gallery had two visitors.
Finished holder for iPad and figured out that Keynote would be the delivery tool.
Anita Harris
She came to Hudson to meet old Cornell guy, Nick Adams and his wife Laurie Nussdorfer. no seats anywhere on Warren. Warm enough so we sat in backyard. He is quick tongued architecture historian, she a historian of 17th century Italy. She has a relative from late 19th century Hudson who had a photo studio on Warren.
Club Helsinki
Dinner and a show with David Drake, Liz Allen and her daughter Elena.
Saturday – 11/14/2015
Another slow day at gallery.
Drove to Bard for concert. Went early to stop at Tivoli Artists Gallery. I was totally disoirented by the name of the show. Kept on looking for a connection stated by the tagline for the show but not in fact present.
The concert was much shorter than the first in this series. Not super interesting really.
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Saturday – 10/24/2015
Norma Hart
Mass for Norma Hart
A supporter of HAL.
Only four people came to DOG that afternoon.
Music at Bard – The Orchestra Now
A long, over 2 1/2 hrs, program by this student orchestra.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Weinberg: Cello Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11
Friday – 4/24/2015
Karen is away in Portland, OR at Fotofest. Gallery had two visitors including Bruce Bergman.
Music at Bard
Went with Howard Saunders to Bard. 7 PM pre lecture was quite good. in retrospective the argument for the Janacek having provenance from Russian music hardly seemed beyond a doubt. I imagined Prokofiev borrowing from Janacek just a bit later. The harp concerto was great with numerous effects that were surprising and new to me. The Goetz was only interesting as an example of the fact that lots of very good art is created and either never recognized during its period or lost thereafter.
Monday – 3/30/2015
Dinner with David Drake and Liz Allen chez nous – meatloaf – followed by music at Helsinki. Very good original music by Parker Milsap.
former Register Star building getting closer to completion.
former Register Star building getting closer to completion.
Parker Milsap at Helsinki
Door ornament at Helsinki
Friday – 3/27/15
8:19 am – still below freezing
Spent most of the day working on tax prep. Almost done with DOG/DOE statements. Gross sales exceeded $17K.
Had call from Jim Savage founder of Green Build LLC a new venture working on hemp-lime construction materials. Expect to have conversation sometime next week.