Saturday of the week before last, Peter and I went to see Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. I confess – I was never a fan of her voice. Of her, yes, very much. She chooses brilliant songwriters and songs to cover. And technically, she is as close as you can be to a […]
Earlier in the week, rtb posted about two upcoming free concerts. The last few summers I have not seen the many free concerts available to us in NYC and I thought I have to take advantage of at least one this year. What’s Going On: A Marvin Gaye Tribute was a celebration of Gaye’s classic […]
I have seen the Rolling Stones live three times – twice at Madison Square Garden and once at Brendan Byrne Arena. For their current No Filter tour, the band is playing MetLife Stadium for their NY area concert, so I had to decide if I wanted to see them in a stadium after having already […]
During the June staff meeting, our office found out that we would be closed the day before and day after Independence Day, giving us five days off. At first, I was not going to do anything and then I thought about treating myself to a stay in a Manhattan hotel and then I thought about […]
In April, Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, opened at the The Jewish Museum. My plan was to see it during a summer Friday before it closed in September. I finally had my chance last Friday. This is the exhibition that rtb saw in Montreal last year, so I was excited to see it. It […]
Mark Morris and the Beatles? Could there be a more fun combination? As soon as I saw the ads for this, I told the rest of our concert-going troupe and several of us got tickets – me, rtb, peg, and mollyT. BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House holds over 2100 people and the show was sold […]
How often do you leave the theater saying that now you want to read the book? Well that happened to some of us when we left Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (book, music, and lyrics/Alexander Hamilton) musical was inspired by Ron Chernow’s biography. The musical covers Hamilton’s life from the time he joins the Revolution to his […]
