Mark Bartlett pianist

So Wednesday night, after spending the day in the freezing cold, shopping, standing in line for tickets, then seeing “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, we were on our way to Lincoln Center to see the NY Philharmonic for the first time, and the first time in Avery Fisher Hall. The main attraction on the program initially was…

So Tuesday night after spending a few hours roaming the streets we ended up at Carnegie Hall. A pretty decent-sized crowd for a Tuesday night was on hand to hear Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in recital. I’d never heard him before, not even on CD I think, but it was a good concert, not…

So we’re back from New York, and it was a good trip, but it’s late and I’m too bleary-eyed to say much about it at the moment. I’ll fill in the particulars in the next day or two.

Finally got some pictures posted more or less the way I want, but still having some technical difficulties getting the links working automatically. The whole point of this exercise is to make it easier to post pictures, but the up-front time has taken longer that I would have hoped. Got an amusing e-mail from Mom…

It’s been a dreary, rainy weekend, so what better antidote than to be cooped up inside a comic book show this morning? I almost didn’t go, but then it turned out at the last minute Ted was available, and willing to drive, so we hopped in his car and headed downtown. Probably hadn’t been to…

Seems like I should step back for one entry and comment on the big fire in Rhode Island, as it was a relatively local event and has been all over the Boston tv channels for the last two days. When those people were killed last weekend in a stampede at a Chicago nightclub, it seemed…

Went to the BSO last night and saw Tan Dun conduct the world premiere of his “multimedia” work “The Map”, with Yo Yo Ma as soloist. Since this was a fairly long piece, sounded to be quite complicated on its own, plus the integration with the video performances that were going on, not to mention…

Tried putting up some pictures last night, but haven’t linked them to the main page yet. I think the pictures are too big (around 100K each), as at that rate I’ll run out of my allotted space here at about 40 pictures. Plus putting lots of them on one page doesn’t work that well, it…

Ben Bova has a short article in the April Analog about how “Isaac was right”, that is there is no intelligent life anywhere else but here. Stan Schmidt’s editorial in the same issue also talks about this and the original article from last year taking the alternate stance, but he comes down rather wishy-washy right…

Took an extra day off today as the piano tuner was coming to visit and I’d never actually met the guy before. This time around it needed more than just a tuning, so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to talk to him directly about its various problems. As it turned out, none of them were…