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Who I Saw And Heard
Six Decades of ‘Live’ Performances
Oh, who did you see and hear, my darling old one?
I see far fewer ‘live’ music events these days.
Besides the ticket prices (exacerbated by the legal scalping through Ticketmaster) I am unwilling to see performers in any of the absurdly vast sports arenas. Also, as I get older, I avoid club performances where it has become standard to stand on your feet for hours.
That said, tonight we have comfortable if relatively distant seats for Bob Dylan at the lovely Beacon Theater here in Manhattan.
I’ve seen him close to a dozen times.
In January we have tickets for Asaf Avidan at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. (Hope they have seats somewhere for the senior citizens.)
And we also have tickets for June of 2022 to see Dion DiMucci—I think this will make it my third time—at the renovated 1929 movie and vaudeville palace, the St. George Theater, in Staten Island.
Somewhere along the coming year we’ll probably go see a classical concert or two, and hopefully some nosebleed seats for an opera; we’ve got binoculars.
As best as memory serves (which, alas, is a disclaimer) here are some of the performances I have seen in my 69 spins around the sun— *…
