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Dan Coren
As good as it gets
DAN COREN
I must be living right.
June 20th
With a friend who loves baseball as much as I do, I see the Phillies lose a titanic battle with the Yankees. It doesn’t matter. I get to see Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams in person, in all their superstar Thereness.
June 21st , late afternoon
I finally understand the true virtues of C++ virtual abstract classes.
June 21st , evening
My wife and I see and hear Emanuel Ax play Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto at the Mann. I have never heard it in concert before. It is 12 hours past the summer solstice. Birds are singing in the rafters; fireflies flash above the audience and on the lawns. Ax gets into the piano keys, down to the very roots, to the pure diatonic E-flatness of the music, the way Dorothy Hamill, arms thrown back in that ecstatic signature gesture of hers, used to get into the ice.
Musorgsky’s Pictures at An Exhibition, one of my wife’s oldest musical friends, follows. Life is good, I think to myself. A very large and very happy audience agrees.
DAN COREN
I must be living right.
June 20th
With a friend who loves baseball as much as I do, I see the Phillies lose a titanic battle with the Yankees. It doesn’t matter. I get to see Alex Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams in person, in all their superstar Thereness.
June 21st , late afternoon
I finally understand the true virtues of C++ virtual abstract classes.
June 21st , evening
My wife and I see and hear Emanuel Ax play Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto at the Mann. I have never heard it in concert before. It is 12 hours past the summer solstice. Birds are singing in the rafters; fireflies flash above the audience and on the lawns. Ax gets into the piano keys, down to the very roots, to the pure diatonic E-flatness of the music, the way Dorothy Hamill, arms thrown back in that ecstatic signature gesture of hers, used to get into the ice.
Musorgsky’s Pictures at An Exhibition, one of my wife’s oldest musical friends, follows. Life is good, I think to myself. A very large and very happy audience agrees.
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