I have three shows to attend this week, and I’m excited about all of them. Tomorrow I’m attending an NYCB matinee with my new friend, composer Myles de Bastion. Next Thursday, thanks to the kindness of Philip (at Oberon’s Grove ) I’ll be hitting another NYCB performance on Thursday night.

In addition, next Saturday, May 17th, I’ve got two tickets to see TAKE Dance perform.

My favorite music was written for occasions that are irrelevant to me; music written for salon conversation and gossip veiled behind intricate fans. Tonight I gazed out the window, and enjoyed the breeze. I wanted perfect and appropriate music to compliment the glow of my lamp and the cityscape.

I knew the perfect piece.

I had pleasure of meeting and interviewing Kenji Bunch years ago, who wrote a work especially for the hours after 12 a.m. in New York. I bought a recording of “Swing Shift” about 5 years ago, but never played it so late at night in the city. It’s a very beautiful work, arranged for a string trio. The soft phrases convey an elusive emptiness about night time in the city that I’m just not beginning to feel.

It’s so perfect I can only sigh and wish you all were here.