I’d never seen This is Spinal Tap before last week. Judge me __here___. My friend and I were chatting as the credits were rolling and out of nowhere he goes, “Wait – pause it. Rewind. Does that say Jane Covner??” Obviously my friend works in classical music, or else he probably wouldn’t have recognized Joshua Bell’s publicist’s name.
I was in the Club Monaco in Soho on Monday and saw this in the men’s section:
Later Monday night, I went to the Béla Fleck/Toumani Diabeté concert in Central Park. At the artist/press entrance, I saw the following sign:
…and promptly took a photograph. I’ve been to a lot of SummerStage concerts, though, and have never known the “No Photography” rule to be enforced. Actually, I didn’t even know it existed; there’s no pre-concert announcement. It certainly didn’t stop old people from using their iPhones,
or Gems of Society from double-fisting cameras and Coors Lights:
I figure I can’t get in trouble because I was just taking pictures of people taking pictures. Finally, perhaps classical music scenes would be more easily identifiable if everyone on the scene wore the same sunglasses, like they did at the …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead pool-less pool party in Brooklyn last weekend.
If that happens, I just hope they’re different sunglasses.
Club Monaco should make it mandatory to wear clef-note shaped cuff links with their Classically Trained shirts.
I see a name that I recognize on that list in the close-up shot where Jane’s name is circled! Small world.