Archives for May 6, 2004

“The essence of dilettantism consists not so much in a lack of high artistic intentions as in the fragility of the technical scaffolding.”

Carl Flesch, Memoirs

This was an all-theater day, and a long one (but what else is new?).

– I spent the morning and early afternoon writing my Wall Street Journal review for Friday.

– After a couple of hours’ worth of miscellaneous busywork, I headed for Avery Fisher Hall, where I saw the New York Philharmonic’s semi-staged concert version of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, starring Kristin Chenoweth, directed by Lonny Price, and conducted by Marin Alsop. That’s for next Friday’s Journal.

– Because of an early curtain and an earlier dinner, I didn’t have enough in-between time to do much of anything other than give my guest for the evening a tour of the Teachout Museum and read the first couple of chapters of Raymond Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake.

– Now playing on iTunes: Helmut Walcha’s recording
of Bach’s chorale prelude Schm