Concertgebouw
Today we are having a rest day, with only the thrills of hauling a suitcase full of groceries up three flights of near vertical stairs to report on. Instead of describing my plans for an ice cream and massage parlor on the second landing, I want to tell you about the concert we went to last night. We were in the main hall of the famous Royal Concertgebouw for an evening of Russian music: Shostakovich’s second cello concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov’s…