I’ve been playing catch-up over the past week, and in the midst of plowing through the 17th century am enjoying one of my favorite parts of summer in New York: the free concerts in the parks. Last night was the Met at SummerStage (my review of which will appear later this week in Time Out New York’s The Volume), tonight is an evening of Beethoven and Mozart courtesy of the New York Philharmonic. My boyfriend and I are meeting up with a girlfriend for a wine and cheese picnic on the lawn beforehand; and while the Magnolia sugar-fest and Veuve Clicquot Traveller set (which costs more than my monthly electricity bill) are way out of our bohemian, opster range, it was nice that Andrea Strong feels the same way I do about this time of year. I wonder, if she goes, what her take on Alan Gilbert will be (and if it will be any more sophisticated than my opinion of Magnolias’s red velvet cupcakes).
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I’ll be sitting in the VIP section of the lawn with my bf! Did you see the One-On-One with Bud Mishkin re: Alan Gilbert?