Tonight my friend Caterina has invited us (thank you Cat!!) to the Carnegie Hall concert: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra featuring her friend, awesome violinist Ray Chen.
Performers
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo, Conductor Ray Chen, Violin Elin Rombo, Soprano Program
ROLF MARTINSSON Open Mind GRIEG “Våren,” Op. 34, No. 2 STENHAMMAR “Fylgia,” Op. 16, No. 4 STENHAMMAR “Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte,” Op. 4, No. 1 BRUCH Violin Concerto No.
When a coconut milk seared wild salmon with basmati rice dinner at home ends with these three desserts/gifts, you know it is sweet:
– I received an incredible Japanese assorted wagashi box from Minamoto Kitchoan (with a beautiful Hokusai “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” Ukiyo-e card)
– I gave her Momofuku MilkBar assorted cookies (of course, with the “compost” in the assortment) and b`day truffles
– Plus Wholefoods Market Dark Chocolate Pear Almond (Lindt had that flavor, and the discontinued it!
On Wednesday we went to the “Tribute to Elliott Carter” concert at City University of New York Graduate Center (34th st & 5th Ave). A varied roster of (mostly) great (mostly) young performers, and Elliott Carters unmistakables compositions. I must admit it is not my favorite kind of music to say the least, but I do keep trying to expand my horizons. Always learning, or trying to. Experience, expose, try… isnt that the hackers attitude?
February 9th was truly a day of wine and snow.
A big snowfall came down the night before, leaving the pretty pictures we have all seen in the media, along with 6,000 cancelled flights and 400,000 homes without power in the Boston area.
So I had no plans to get out of my comfortable Chelsea apartment, but Jill (a friend who works at the New York Times, and who is moving to Washington DC to head the DC Bureau of the NYT) invited us to the NYC Winter Wine Fest.
After MIT`s crazy week, back in NY I needed a couple of days of sleep and relax to get back into the normal rhythm. Luckily it was SuperBowl weekend, so the streets (and Chelsea Market) were fairly empty!
So on Tuesday I was ready to get going full speed ahead. First, after meeting with P. Oberton in the NYPL, then I went to Condé Nast publications` building, into Wired Magazine, to discuss a PR campaign/project along with Valencia Regional Minister of Industry (& etc) Max Buch.
The second week of January I flew to Lima (Peru) for an important business meeting. It was a hard trip: overnight flight from New York, straight to meeting, and overnight flight back. But there was no other way to fit the trip in my schedule.
A few days later I flew with my fiancée to Valencia both for business and for pleasure.It was a cloudy and “cold” week (for Valencia anyway, because 58ºF could hardly count as “cold”, considering it is 11ºF now in New York).
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This year I spent Christmas at Niagara Falls.
While it is one of the natural wonders of the world, I had not thought about visiting it before because I did not expect it to be “worth it”. How wrong I was! Not only it is a lovely area (the Canadian side, at least), albeit certainly quite “touristic”, but the waterfalls indeed are amazing. You stand so close to the water, intense green, that you can feel it rush, precipitate, and crash.
