The one that got away.

"Fire Postpones Chamber Concert"
The New York Times, November 21, 2008

My first news brief for the Times, this is a paragraph about what transpired when I turned up on Thursday night for the first event in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's "Night Fantasies" mini-festival. The concert was rescheduled for this afternoon at 1pm; it's probably coming to an end even as I type this. I'm sorry to have missed it, especially Gilles Vonsattel's first performance of Elliott Carter's masterful Night Fantasies. But a day off work has become an almost unthinkably dear privilege just lately, and I selfishly chose to cling to it. There are two more concerts in this admirable series: tonight (Sat., Nov. 22) with Claron McFadden and Gil Kalish, and tomorrow evening (Sun., Nov. 23) with Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Unsurprisingly, both are completely sold out.