Manhattan - Day 16

Early this evening I caught the #1 train uptown to Lincoln Center to attend a recital at Juilliard. A wonderful evening of Collaborative Piano by the oh-so talented Juilliard students - this evening led off with a Schubert Piano for four-hands performed by two of the schools instructors. The music was terrific especially the Mozart Sonata in D for Two Pianos and best of all - completely FREE. The whole of Lincoln Center and Juilliard have undergone a wonderful remodel and now they are open and simply amazing.

As nice as the evening was there are just one or two things . . .

1. People, just because you say you like classical music doesn't actually mean you do. If all you're going to do is sit down and then fall asleep - turn on the radio or a CD and do it at home.

2. If you don't have the good sense not to swing open large double doors in the middle of a performance and stroll in, also stay home. You're coming in to see artists at work - not trained monkeys.

3. New York is and always will be -  New York. After the performance I stopped in the men's room and in the middle of this beautifully remodeled and state of the art facility - there in the urinal is a cockroach the size of a Brahma Bull. Ah, New York.