On Sunday, after Katie got done working at the blood drive, we joined our friends Ben and Jara (who were at our party the night before) for a concert at Lincoln Center. Jara is the manager of education for the Chamber Music Society, and was able to bring us into Alice Tully Hall as her guests. We saw an all-Shostakovich program (his centennial starts in 2006, since he was born in 1906), which was really very good. The Chamber Music society played his Cello sonata; the wonderful Trio for piano, violin and cello; the string octet; and his Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings.
Katie and I got to go backstage for the reception, and I was able to talk to the trumpeter, Phil Smith, who is also the principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic. What a thrill! And the wine and petit-fours weren't bad either! It was quite an eventful weekend, and now we are back to the grind this week. But we can't complain. Life is good. Until the next adventure....
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