– Last night I saw Luciana Souza‘s opening night at Joe’s Pub. The house was sold out and the music
was so beautiful that even the bartenders crushed their ice with reasonable discretion. As if that weren’t enough, I got to meet Janis Siegel, on whom I’ve had an intermittent crush ever since high school (she came to see the show and went backstage to tell Souza that it was “perfect”). I’m pleased to say that she lived up to my expectations–she’s v., v. cool.
– I’m still reading Barbara Pym’s A Very Private Eye. Here’s a quote:
Richard has been reading some of my books–I gave him Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings–do you think that a good choice? E.W. he found terribly sad, but witty–why is it that men find my books so sad? Women don’t particularly. Perhaps they (men) have a slight guilt feeling that this is what they do to us, and yet really it isn’t as bad as all that.
– Now playing on iTunes: Mischa Levitzki’s 1933 recording of Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso. I wouldn’t sell my soul to be able to play piano like that, but I might rent it….