Friday February 23: Symphonyspace (with Phebo)

It must have been at least 5 years ago since I last visited a classical concert, but last Friday Phebo, who is one of my colleagues in the Amsterdam office and who was on transfer in the Boston office until recently, invited me to a performance of Dvorak's 9th symphony & Mozart's Flute concerto No.2. Phebo (picture) plays in an Amsterdam orchestra & one of his colleagues there, Inger, is currently playing in the "New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra", which brought us to the Upper West Side Symphonyspace concert hall. Inger's parents were visiting her from the Netherlands and coincidentally it happened to be her father's birthday, so he took us to a Jazz bar & paid for the drinks afterwards (thanks again for that!).