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- Jan 4. THE FIRST EMPEROR at the Met. It's a vast extravaganza about Emperor Qin (pronounced Chin), the
early emperor who buried all the fighting men and animals. It's a somewhat uneasy mixture of old Chinese music and 19th century
Italian opera. Many critics say that it needs a lot of revision.
- Jan 11. NY Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta, plays Elgar and Bruckner at Avery Fisher. The cello played by the young virtuoso
Alisa Weilerstein in the Elgar concerto. First open rehearsal of the year.
- Jan 13. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE, a Princeton group
playing music of the baroque-- violin, flute, recorder viola da gamba and harpsichord-- at the Unitarian Church, featuring
Laura Heimes, wonderful soprano and John Burkhalter, recorder, who lectured on the European Grand Tour of the 18th century.
- Jan 20. Organ concert featuring the works of the Danish/German composer Buxtehude, a late 17th and early 18th century
composer, at St Thomas' Church on 5th Avenue. He was famous and renowned in his time; Bache himself walked 250 miles to hear
him play.
- Feb5. I PURITANI at the Met. Puritans? People who pour their hearts out in view of the entire village? Moral
of the show: when you are on the way to your own wedding, it is not advisable to run off with another woman without consulting
your fiancee. Some women take it very badly, especially if they are beautiful sopranos, like Anna Netrebko.
- Apr 19. The
Romantic Heart, a chamber music concert at the Christ and St Stephen's Church, W 69 street. Tartini,Bruch, Rachmaninoff, and
Brahms played in an exquisit little church by a group of highly skilled players, esp Stephanie Chase, violin, and James Wilson,
cello. Organized by the Music of the Spheres Society.
- Nov 10. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at the Met. Workman like singing, but
was disappointed by Bryn Terfel, the great Welsh baritone.
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