Tidy Tidbits: Books & Culture

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 …

Summer Reading: Part 1

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 …