Summer 2013 Concerts
I do not usually go to two concerts in a week, but that is how the calendar came together. (My hope had been to make motorcycle trips to the two concerts, but the weather was not suitable.) I have been a fan of the Eagles band for quite a few years and […]
Where’s The Music?
Music has been one of my favorite things for as long as I can remember (see music category here in patrickWeb for stories). Where is my music? Some of it is recorded on circular pieces of vinyl stored in boxes in my attic. The music used to rotate at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute on […]
Johannes Brahms
The Variations on a Theme of Haydn by Johannes Brahms was good, the Suite from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was excellent , but the Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 was fantastic. His second symphony was composed by Brahms, the German compser, during a visit to Austria during the summer of 1877. The composition […]
Neil Sedaka in Bethel Woods
Most of the entries in the Favorite Concerts page are classical music concerts, but last night at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts was a different kind of “classical” music. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra was conducted by our own Jerry Steichen, music director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. The rendezvous of my brother […]
Doo Wop – Why They Keep Going
Most of the entries in the Favorite Concerts page are classical music concerts, but last night at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts was a different kind of “classical” music. The NY Doo Wop Extravaganza featured The Mystics (“Hushabye”), The Passions (“Just To Be With You”), The Classics (“Till Then”), Buddy Holly’s Crickets (“Peggy […]
