Reading and Roaming
CULTURE NOTES Over its three-week run, the Sarasota Music Festival brings rising young musicians to town and pairs them with faculty from the orchestra and various conservatories for a series of chamber and full orchestra concerts. Friday night’s concert included an exquisite performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. This is a piece we know very …
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SNATCHES OF UPSTATE NY. We spent this past week getting together with old friends, family and former colleagues as well as visiting old haunts and new venues. Lots of great hospitality along the way. From Bethlehem, PA, we traveled to Skaneateles and Auburn and then on to Albany and Saratoga Springs. It was a whirlwind …
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VISITING OLD HAUNTS This week we are returning to the scene of past crimes—no, not crimes—just past lives. Coming to Bethlehem for an event at Lehigh University let us re-explore Bethlehem’s Main Street and its burgeoning dining scene. New restaurants midst old familiar ones (such as Edge, still excellent) and lots of sidewalk seating. On …
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UNEXPECTED EXHIBIT The exhibit was titled, “Los Alamos” and mentioned to us by a good friend. She has visited Los Alamos a number of times and was interested, but couldn’t get to the museum before the exhibit closed. We were also interested and so went to the Metropolitan Museum to see it. It’s an exhibit …
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