Music at the Met
After Friday night's concert at the Met (our Met, the museum), Kathleen and I skittered in the cold to a trattoria on 84th near Madison, the Caffe Grazie. After a while, I realized that the couple of the next table had been to the same performance, and I ventured a remark. We were soon in deep conversation about the evening. I was assured that Edward Arron, the Artistic Coordinator of MMArtists (whom we'd just heard), is the son of the late Judith Arron, the great director of Carnegie Hall before her untimely death of cancer. I'd been hoping that he was just a nephew; what a load it must be to know that there's a beautiful performing space in Manhattan that was your mother's idea, and that that was supposed to be named after her - until a couple of richnicks came along and bought the naming rights to Zankel Hall.
Here's my report. Op. 34 is worth your time!
