The Philadelphia O Again.

3-18-19 SHORT HILLS: Last Friday we were at NJPAC in Newark for a concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Now you may remember that we heard them, the Phil Orch, the previous Friday at Carnegie Hall. We accidently bought tickets to each performance from different brochures at different times. We decided to see them both. The more recent concert opened with a Haydn Overture rather then the new composition, but the rest was the same, Mendelssohn Piano Concerto and Shubert Symphony. Jan Lisiecki and Yannick Nézet-Séguin were again excellent. I think I liked the acoustics at Prudential Hall better than at Carnegie.

We had Alan and Bill as guests because NJPAC offered free tickets to fill unsold seats. We all ate at Marcus B & P before the concert. That Friday was gorgeous BTW with temps in the mid-seventies.

Wednesday, March 20, brings the Vernal Equinox at 5:58 PM EDT, and the full moon happens about four hours later, obviously the first one of spring. Night and day are already almost equal. At the equinoxes the sun rises and sets due east and due west, so today’s sunset is almost there.

The snow is gone here, hopefully until next winter, but we go to VT tomorrow where there is still plenty of snow.


The sunset is almost due west, where it will be at the Equinox. It was setting at the left edge of the picture during the winter.

NJPAC, The Philadelphia Orchestra waiting for the concert master and conductor.