Tag Archives: Leon Botstein

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.image

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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.

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