Michael's adventures...: January - in a Nut/Shell *** 2014

JANUARY 2014 began with the flu ! ...
It's all up-hill & fun times from here.
(I hope)

Bart digs out...

Looks like I'm not going out today !

The snow piles up !
Is that a mushroom
growing on my porch ?

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SNOW---> COLD --> hate it!

Finally shoveled out and ready to begin Day-Tripping again.
It's going to be a GREAT year !
* HAPPY NEW YEAR *
let 2014 begin

Salem = Peabody Essex Museum (1-9-14)

Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Signac and Caillebotte

Key Impressionists

who spent many hours at sea, on river boats, leisure craft and floating studios.

Through nearly 60 oil paintings, works on paper, models and small craft, this exhibition illuminates the importance that access to the sea and France's extensive inland waterways played in the development of one of the world's most enduring artistic movements

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Boston ISG/Calderwood Hall (1-12-14)

Jeremy Denk - Piano

The Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series presents classical chamber music on Sunday afternoons, featuring performances by renowned musicians alongside outstanding emerging artists.

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PROGRAM:
The 2013 MacArthur Fellow and Gardner Artist-in-Residence returns for another exhilarating performance.
• Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494
• Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310
• Ligeti, Etudes No. 11 ("En Suspens"); No. 12 ("Entrelacs"); No. 13 ("L'escalier du Diable")
• Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6

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Jeremy Denk has established himself as one of America’s most thought-provoking, multi-faceted, and compelling artists. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles

Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and London. He regularly gives recitals in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, and throughout the United States. This season includes a return to Carnegie Hall in recital, as part of a 13-city tour of the U.S., as well as a performance of Bach’s complete set of six keyboard concertos in a single evening with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Upcoming engagements include tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
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Such a wonderful performance ! Personal, magical, and exhilarating ! I really needed to relax and drift off listening to such perfection !

Followed by reflections of the performance while having lunch at Café`G of course.

Our table awaits - bring on the wine!

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Boston ISG/Calderwood Hall (1-19-14)

Alexander Melnikov -piano

PROGRAM
Complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Part I
• Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, nos. 1–12

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Alexander Melnikov graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov. His most formative musical moments in Moscow include his early encounter with Svjatoslav Richter. He was awarded important prizes at such eminent competitions as the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau (1989) and the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Brussels (1991).
Known for his often-unusual musical and programmatic decisions, Alexander Melnikov discovered a career-long interest in historical performance practice at an early age. Melnikov performs regularly with such distinguished period ensembles as Concerto Köln and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Alexander Melnikov is the 2013/14 Artist-in-Residence at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. This season begins with Melnikov’s debut at the BBC Proms with the Warsaw Philharmonic, followed by performances in the season-opening concerts of the Czech Philharmonic. Melnikov’s solo engagements will take him to such venues as the Maison symphonique de Montreal, Wigmore Hall in London, De Singel in Antwerp and the Mozarteum Salzburg, as well as to concert halls in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo.

* WOW *

Mr. Melnikov performed to perfection! Today's concert was quite different from previous performances I've attended in so much as the artist performed without a break. For approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes Mr. Melnikov played flawlessly ! How exhausting that must be for him, although you would never know it. Such passion and energy only emerge

Of course.... you know what came next.

Reservation to Café`G are waiting.