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Liz and I saw The New Decameron: Songwriters in Lockdown at the Triad on Nov 17, 2025. Liz's husband Tom Toce was one of the three songwriters featured. He had a Zoom pseudo support group during the dark days of Covid with two other songwriters, John Forster and Hillary Rollins. They thought they should collaborate on a project, it would help get them get through lockdown. John set the tone by performing his song "The Zoom Song," which won the 2023 Manhattan Association of C

Barbara, Dale, Jere and I heard the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov 15, 2025. It was a program with a focus on the viola, probably my favorite of the string instruments. The players were Stella Chen and Alexander Sitkoventsy on violin, Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer on viola, and Jonathan Swensen on cello. Four of the five pieces on the program were for all five players, an ensemble called a "viola quintet," aka a string quartet plus an extra viola. It's a ri