New York Stories: Music Bloggers in the Wild

Pictured: At least three music bloggers (including ACB on stage)
Not pictured: At least another two music bloggers
(including grecchinois who appeared on stage later)

When I passed through New York late last month for some rehearsals (M6 show on Thursday; did I mention?) I caught one of the Saint Louis Symph Orch's concerts at Carnegie. It was a magical evening: I showed up at the box office just as someone was giving away comps in Parterre Row U! (The concert was nice too.) Huzzah for not planning ahead.

Sometime during intermission the empty seat next to me was filled by a young man with program, pen and digital camera in hand. Something about his set-up seemed strangely familiar. When David Robertson came out, the camera went up. During the applause between pieces, furtive photos were taken and quickly reviewed with head bowed over the tiny screen. During the Doctor Atomic Symphony my peripheral vision caught sight of frantic scribbles in the program. Either he's an obsessive-compulsive, I thought, or...

"Pardon me," I said as we stood to put on our coats, "but do you happen to have a blog?" I had considered at one point taking a photo of him taking a photo of the stage, because watching him felt uncomfortably like watching myself in a funhouse mirror. (For Peter Matthews' post about the concert, visit Feast of Music.)

Photo from Anne-Carolyn Bird's Sing for Hope birthday concert benefiting The Children's Aid Society, which offers tuition-free musical training for under-served children in the New York area

Comments

[Maury D'Annato]

Hm, I need a haircut. Like, not a haircut haircut but I need someone to go at the back of my neck with clippers.

[M. C-]

i bet a well-worded post on craigslist would get you a couple dozen prospective "someones" in under 20 minutes...

[Peter Matthews]

Thanks, Sidney. And, congrats on not being the umpteenth person to ask me, "Are you a student?"