What fun! Instead of dropping off a grannie client to her daughter's for dinner - as I usually do after taking her to & from church - this past Sunday we went out to lunch at Be Well Bakery & Cafe, then whisked into Philadelphia to hear Andy Kahn play piano jazz at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia, on Rittenhouse Square.
Lunch was delicious & we got off in plenty of time to arrive well before the 3:00 p.m. concert. Delighted to find parking just four blocks away from the concert site. And only $16!
It was a lovely day to stroll Rittenhouse Square, to the Ethical Society & a jewel-box of a small auditorium. It was clear that most of the people were friends or long-time fans of Andy Kahn, whom neither of us had heard play before.
I'd heard about the concert on WRTI, when Andy was interview by the legendary Bob Perkins. Immediately thought of a grannie clients who loves jazz (and misses playing the piano). Sure enough, she reveled in the cozy concert, which featured the Great American Playbook - songs we knew by composers we love & by ones we'd never heard of but who wrote some of our favorite tunes.
Musicians love to play for my grannie client - she is so appreciative, becomes so intertwined with the notes. And she loved sitting right where we were, with a perfect view of the keyboard & his playing.
I think she could have floated home, she was so happy with the music, the setting, the afternoon.
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