4/25/19 Thursday

This morning John had his FaceTime french lesson with Honorine in Florida.  Good news!!! Solomon has a job and they are both doing well.  Honorine's grant to study in Paris late this Summer has gone through.  She will be doing research for her doctorate.

I took a walk while John was studying. Beautiful day here.  Light lunch as we plan to have dinner at "Darius" before tonight's concert.

John was able to purchase some last minute tickets for tonight's concert.  We were in the second row with of wonderful view of, Nelson Freire, a Brazilian pianist born in 1944 who began playing the piano at age three, and performed in his first recital at age five.  I don't think there is a major city in the world that he hasn't played in.  A real treat for us.

The conductor was a Finn, Mikko Franck, who is presently director of the de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.  The pianist performed Chopin's piano concerto number 2 in F minor.

Our view: