Aftermath – Brahms e minor Sonata – May 10 and 12, 2023
May 15th 2023 Wow, two performance of the Brahms e minor in one week. They went well. The first was with a group called the Music Club of Princeton. We were third on the program after a Beethoven sonata and a Ravel piano piece (sublime!). My pianist, Frances Slade, played the Beethoven and then the […]
Renaissance Man
Steve Hiltner, one of the people in our Documentary theater group invited us to come to a performance he was doing at the Princeton Library. Knowing what it’s like to put together an audience, Paul and I decided to go to “support” our fellow theater guy. Well, it turns out he is terrific. He plays […]
Aftermath Concert at Lake George Aug 20, 2023
The concert at lake George is over for 2023 – whew! It is always a bit challenging for both of us. Jeff is on a smaller (MUCH smaller) piano with different action and voicing – a whole different feel. It’s not as bad for me since I have the same instrument. It’s always good to […]
Circus and Aging
I have been working for many years to insure that I pushed back on the hands of time, by which I mean, I have been exercising and eating well. It’s more than that, though. It seems that to push back those hands, you have to push really hard. So you have to exercise more than […]
Thoughts on Dry January
I have been thinking a lot lately about alcohol and drinking. Dry January this year prompted several of my friends to participate. Some have reported being surprised at how much they missed it (“It scared me how important alcohol was to me”) and some have decided not to drink at all since then. Some lost a […]
Dog Camp Galore
We just got back from a weekend away and we left our dog, Banjo, at Camp Bowwow. We hadn’t left him overnight since we have had him so I wanted to make sure he was OK. He had a great time and was well taken care of all weekend. We could watch him from the […]