nice day...

have already found out their are no senior tickets available for tonight's Philharmonic concert in which my friend Richard Goode is playing the last Mozart piano concerto. Too bad, I would have liked to be there---I always feel a kind of connection and pride when I see Richard playing. And why shouldn't I? I have been watching him play the piano since we were in public school Quite a long time, and he was as brilliant then, as he is now, in his seventies.
  Memory: our class is in a small room with a piano--our teacher Mrs. Hoffman says: "would you like to hear a treat?" She asks Richard to play and he plays (expertly, of course) the Gollywog Cakewalk by Debussy. Really an incredible memory.
  Last night---after two sessions, headed to the Public where Frank, my friend, secured a comp for me to see The Team's latest project entitled Anything That Gives Off Light. A three actor play with a background band--it is a wild and intense ride of visions that move very quickly off each other. Lots of topics re America or capitalism or brought up, but they really are touched, not explored. The three actors are so intense and talented you sometimes forget how frustrating it is to have the content shifted so often. Glad to see my friend Jesse, who does a remarkable job with her role as a West Virginia wife and mother on the run (at least I think that is who she plays). Like Christine's play at the Bushwick Starr which I saw last week, it indulges itself a little too much---it seems comfortable moving from issue to issue and genre to genre without much regard for its audience. Still, the audience that was there last night loved it; the Team has built its own following, I think, and they were there to support the three excellent actors. They go to a bar on 5th street afterwards to hang out, called Scratchers---I decided not to go this time---I was tired, but I might meet them there later in the run. I have never been to Scratchers, should be interesting.
  Tomorrow I get my appointment for the colonoscopy---all well and good---also have to make a decision about the Hopkins Reunion in a little more than two weeks. I would love to go, but the timing is so bad---so many other things are happening---can't decide anything yet; maybe tomorrow will clear things up---will report soon.