Notable debuts.

I missed violinist Jennifer Koh's performance with the New York Philharmonic on Wednesday night, since the orchestra's Central Park concert was cancelled due to ferocious weather. (Koh's debut with the orchestra came one night earlier, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.) Fellow scribe Vivien Schweitzer, on the other hand, made the journey out to Cunningham Park in Queens on Thursday night, and her review of the event appears in Saturday's edition of The New York Times. This is a well-deserved debut for Vivien, whose newly launched (and gorgeously designed) website will lead you to pieces she's previously penned for The Economist, Newsday, Playbill, The Gramophone... and, I'm proud to note, Time Out New York.

Another TONY-related debut to which I'm happy to direct attention is the blogosphere premiere of Elisabeth Vincentelli, whose name you've almost certainly come upon at one time or another. My companion at Friday night's Emperor concert and the Arts & Entertainment Editor (i.e., "Culture Czar") at TONY, Elisabeth is one of the most breathtakingly erudite and expansively inquisitive individuals I've ever encountered. From Eurovision to Regietheater, from Offenbach to Hurra Torpedo, she's got an informed opinion -- as well as the means by which to express it thoughtfully and credibly at The Determined Dilettante.