Yesterday was a long day: I drove down to the IBM Research lab in Westchester County, New York, for a meeting. It's about 95 miles each way. In the evening, I was a volunteer at a Tanglewood concert, and then I attended the concert. Lots of driving!
The concert was a performance of three piano trios (Haydn, Shostakovitch, Mendelssohn) by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio. Joseph Kalichstein plays piano, Jaime Laredo violin, and Sharon Robinson viola; Laredo and Robinson are married to one another.
I had a seat in the second row of the orchestra, right in the center. The perspective on the players is a bit odd, because the stage is only about two or three inches below eye level. Still, I was so close that it was almost as if I had invited the trio into my living room. Fascinating to watch and to hear. This group is justly very famous, and they were very well received by the audience in Ozawa Hall.
In parts of the Mendelssohn, he seemed to be quoting from The Doxology. I wonder what that was about.
Tonight (Friday) I'll see The Winter's Tale.
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