Jul 16 2009
Here is a little trivia from Tanglewood Summer 2009 playbill on Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor, “Pathétique”: First performance: October 28, 1893, St. Petersburg, Tchaikovsky cond. (nine days before his death). First BSO performance: December 1894, Emil Paur cond. First Tnaglewood performance: August 13, 1938, Serge Koussevitzky cond. Most recent Tanglewood performance: July [...]
Jul 08 2009
The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, almost always referred to as the Tappan Zee Bridge, or simply the Tappan Zee, is a cantilever bridge in New York over the Hudson River at one of its widest points, the Tappan Zee, named for an American Indian tribe from the area called the “Tappan” (zee being [...]
Apr 10 2009
Yasu Japanese, Sushi, Korean, Barbecue 1366 Beacon St, Brookline 02446 (At Centre St) (617) 738-2244 A standard issue Korean restaurant. The old lady by the door is bit grumpy but the rest of young waiting staff are polite and efficient in a woody setting. The table setting aren’t nice, so no pictures. Food are fine. [...]
Feb 23 2009
Tanglewood catalogue arrived. (I just don’t see the paper disappear any time soon even I wish for the sake of environment) AND guess what? They’ll play Beethoven’s violin concerto on 7/31. Will we be there? I hope so. I’ve few fantasies, seeing this live is one, and another one was driving in a Jaguar [don’t [...]
Aug 14 2008
The hall’s a wonderful place to be. comfortable. Almost magnificent. Wood. More wood. Woods were everywhere. Then there were the volunteers. They were everywhere and can be quite annoying if not down right snobbish. It was only a rehearsal by few apprentices and the vols had the guts asking me not to walk toward [...]
Jul 09 2008
I was dragged to the Rush concert at Saratoga NY – SPAC.. A close mind person like me, of course I couldn’t wait for it to finish. One thing I was impressed with was their punctuality. Eight o’clock on the ticket, 8 o’clock they showed up on stage. It’s their intercontinental tour promoting their latest [...]
Jul 08 2008
Driving home from the Berkshires on the scenic Taconic Parkway, or Route 66 as the locals call it. Golfer got a ticket, from the town of Ghent. He was doing 74 on a 55 speeding zone. Taconic Pky is very pretty with part of it being winding, which the 55 state limit warrants it. But part of [...]
May 26 2008
Open water swimming isn’t my cup of tea ever since I switched to free style from breast stroke. There’s little rock or tiny island off the Repulse Bay in Hong Kong that we used to swim to. The water in HK is crystal clear, so regardless of company or not, I’d go. But when the water turns to muddy, [...]
Feb 24 2008
Tanglewood 1997 Peter Newton (1926-2008), a Brit, the founder of this vineyard had just passed away. He’s credited with putting the vocabulary of Merlot and Chardonnay into ordinary Americans who otherwise only knew wine as red and white. We falling in love with Sterling’s Chardonnay at the Lexon when we attended the BSO at Tanglewood that summer [...]
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