This BLOG entry, compliments of the New Yorker magazine, says whatever you want it to say.  This one makes me wish I had kept the first issue in March from all the years since I began getting the magazine.  When I first took this one out of my mailbox yesterday, I thought something was wrong.  The more I thought about it, the more I knew it was very right.  The New Yorker is right again.

Margaret, Nancy, and I went to a wonderful San Diego Symphony concert last evening that had on its program compositions by my two favorite composers: Shostakovich and Beethoven.  The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor by Dmitri Shostakovich with Augustin Hadelich the featured violinist was perfect and got the biggest audience response I can remember from many years of attending the symphony performances.  Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor was as good as Beethoven gets. If you live in or near San Diego, get down to Symphony Hal for tonight's or tomorrow's performances.
You won't be sorry.