Last night I went to Carnegie Hall for the first time. My parents have tickets for a series of concerts and the couple they usually go with couldn't make it, so Sam and I filled their shoes. My impressions:
- Box seats are scary. Especially when you get in and out of them.
- There is very little leg room in box seats. There is also very little room to angle your chair so that you can look at orchestra head on instead of the people on the other side of the hall.
- The space is beautiful and huge. Huge!
- Sitting in a box seat made me feel like I should be in a fancy gown and spying on the people across the hall with opera glasses a la The Age of Innocence. But the guy wearing jeans in the box next to me made me feel better about it.
- Hillary Hahn wore an awesome dress.
- I made it through the first half without falling asleep. It may be a record for me.
P.S. I'm heading down to Mexico next week. Sadly, this probably won't even disrupt my less than stellar posting lately. But hopefully I'll have photos when I get back. If I remember to charge my camera that is.
Posted by dahl at February 16, 2007 4:23 PM