Busy month of recovery

In mid-February I took a nasty fall on the slopes of Squaw Valley, California, and suffered a severe concussion that's made keeping up with the blog (let alone the daily work-pile) very challenging.  I'm now more or less back on track and have plenty to say, starting with my reading over the past few weeks -- more de Beauvoir, Christopher Isherwood, and Robert Pippin on movies, as well as Esa-Pekka Salonen's marvelous concert series "Hungarian Echoes."  Now, dinner followed by a concert of new music in Brooklyn.  Until soon!