Town Hall Auditorium, NYC. Orchestra (Seat N117, $15)
Program - Schubert Piano Sonata Cycle III.
Piano Sonata No. 4 in A minor, D. 537 (1817) by Schubert (1797-1828).
Sonata No. 9 in B major, D. 575 (1817).
Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894 (1826).
Paul Lewis will be performing the entire cycle of Schubert piano sonatas at Town Hall. For the third concert in the cycle, two earlier and one very late sonatas were programmed. No. 18 at nearly 40 minutes long is one of the longer sonatas.
As encore the audience was treated to a familiar Schubert movement. Google identifies it as the second movement of his D.664 A major sonata.
The next concert, the last in this Schubert series, is on 11/18. I will be out of town so won't be able to make it.
As in last season, I sat a few rows back from my assigned seat so I could make a fast exit afterwards. (Today that wasn't necessary as I was taking the bus to Hoboken from Port Authority; buses run regularly.) I asked the usher how crowded the auditorium would be, and was told about 700 people in an auditorium that seats 1500. It felt more crowded than that.
I didn't realize today was Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Access to the area was severely controlled, it took me a while to get out of the place as all exits but one was blocked. Outside one could buy pro- and anti-Trump merchandise. All very civilized. I stopped by Hoboken to watch Reid play in a soccer match.
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