Beacon, NY

A couple weeks ago I went to visit my friend at her hideaway in Beacon. By train, it was less than 2 hours from Manhattan. She has a little studio there where she composes music.

We went for a lovely walk in the woods at Dennings Point, an historic thumb of land that sticks out into the Hudson River. Beacon is famous for being the home of one of the world's largest contemporary art museums Dia: Beacon, housed in the old Nabisco factory.

My friend, Deb K. in front of the concert hall where we saw a nice chamber music concert.

Map of Dennings Point

The video:

Thanksgiving at Lizzy's

Going to Carnegie Hall to Watch Irene

Giovanni, Suzanna and Liz

My friend Irene plays cello with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. They performed at Carnegie Hall last week in a concert benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Due to high ranking connections, we scored the President's box. The concert was a little long, but fun. Arun showed up late (from work) slept during the concert, and went back to work, where he planned to spend the night (dude, you're working way too hard). There was a REALLY noisy group in the box next door. All of us gave them dirty looks, and they turned out to be one of the guest performers, a country western guy, and his family. You just can't take them country people anywhere.

Me and Lizzy

Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

Irene - see red mark

On another note, I played a trio with Yuri and Dili at Spielathon this year: