February 2015 in review

Books read (9):

• Here by Richard McGuire (Read the original comic here) (Post forthcoming)
• Best American Comics 2014 ed. Scott McCloud (Post forthcoming)
• RL Book 1 by Tom Hart (Post forthcoming)
• RL Book 2 by Tom Hart (Post forthcoming)
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Post forthcoming)
• The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (Post forthcoming)
• Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan (Post forthcoming)
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The First Bad Man by Miranda July (Post forthcoming)

Live performances (14):

• Ryan Scott Oliver at 54 Below (2/2/15)
• Lady, Be Good! at City Center Encores (2/7/15)
• "So This Is Love," Broadway Barkada's annual Valentine's Day concert, at The Cutting Room, at which I also arranged and performed on one song (2/8/15)
• I Am, I Will, I Do, three readings of a new musical at Shetler Studios, for which I did music prep & copy/engraving work (2/9-10/15)
• Taping of The Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theatre (2/11/15)
• San Fermin with the Metropolis Ensemble, at the Appel Room (Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series) (2/12/15)
• John & Jen at the Clurman Theatre (2/13/15)
• Big Love at the Signature Theatre (2/14/15)
• Horseplay: or, The Fickle Mistress, A Protean Picaresque at La Mama (2/14/15)
• Parade in Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center (2/16/15)
• The Iceman Cometh at BAM's Harvey Theatre (2/17/15)
• Novus NY, et al, at Carnegie Hall: Ives's Symphony No. 4,  & Ginastera's Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam, Op. 43, at Carnegie Hall (2/21/15)
• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (2/24/15)
• Constellations at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (2/27/15)

Movies (1):

• The Last Five Years

Other miscellany:

• Transcribed Red Garland's solo on the famous "Bye, Bye Blackbird" recording from 'Round About Midnight
• Arranged and performed, with Steven, Bacharach & David's "A House Is Not A Home"
• Watched season 5 of Downton Abbey
• Celebrated Steven's birthday!
• Ate at some great new (to me!) restaurants in Manhattan & Brooklyn
• Started my long-term sub gig with a NAAP outreach choir in Chinatown

The dress is white and gold.