tomorrow back at....

Friends (one period only, maybe more) and Tuesday as well. That's an upper. Was there last night as well, watching the Spring Music Festival. Really impressed---chamber players played really well, and the singing group was really incredible. Sheri, their teacher leader picked some wonderfully appropriate songs---really amazing how, after Tim left, in my head he was irreplaceable, but his replacement brought his own individuality to the job and so has Sheri. Seems like there is so much talent---so much awareness of the uniqueness of music.  Very impressive.
Afterwards chose to watch baseball at a bar that I had never visited previously, called Professor Tom's one of  two sports bars on Second between 13th and 14th. Known as a Red Sox bar, I chose it because I figured that was one place where the Ranger game would not dominate (it did, but it did not matter). Sat in front of Red Sox TV at the bar, bartender very nice and welcoming, a guy named Tim, sitting next to me, struck up a conversation about baseball---then invited me to be his partner at Trivia (did not expect to play, but did anyway). We came in fifth---not bad since we were only two.Overall a good experience there, I will probably return, but still there was a sense of sterility in the bar as well---maybe because the essence was so masculine, men outnumbered women by a lot. Think I am a little tired of watching baseball as the evening's primary entertainment. Get seduced into thinking that I will be fascinated by it, instead....well plenty of other options as the long weekend arrives and progresses.
Earlier today (it is around 1 P.M.) I decided to track down a play that I wanted to read (the Country House, by Donald Margolies) at the only library that had it, the one on 96th street off Lexington. Took the sixty sixth street crosstown, got of at Madison, walked to 96th. Fascinating walk, I am so rarely in that part of town. Memories of Madison Ave in my formative years, the fifties, sixties and seventies, when people with an artistic bent could get apartments there for fairly inexpensive rents. Remember reading that screen writer William Goldman bought a 10 room apartment on Park Avenue around 72, for $225,000. Amazing.
On the west side of the street between 81st and 82nd street is a book store---walked in there and browsed for a moment---wow! It is like stepping into a time machine---back to that era I mentioned before when literary people inhabited Madison Ave and its environs,. (a few left? Possibly). and went to book stores to chat, and maybe pick someone up. Quite an experience, will return to that book store. Finished my walk down Madison, finally hitting the library and meeting my cousin Bill, the retired lawyer as he was going out. He was friendly, I told him about my coming trip to Baltimore, he wanted to meet with me after the trip and get a report. Very heartening.
That's it, will "struggle" with vision of what to do this evening---here we go....