Tourist

One of the things you're not taught in music school is that before you take a vacation, you have to work ahead so you aren't excessively behind when you return. That upfront work kept me from posting that I'll be going to New York this weekend for the premiere of Melinda Wagner's Trombone Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, in this season of 1,001 trombone concertos; the U.S. premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway; and Piotr Anderszewski's recital of Szymanowski and Beethoven. The Brian Blade Fellowship at the Village Vanguard is also in the calendar. This is probably as good a place as any to second a living composer's opinion that Anderszewski looks very similar to John Stamos. To whomever googled cadillac hindemith saxophone, you're looking for Hindemith's opera about a murderer titled Cardillac. As far as I know, there are no Escalades in it.