The platform at 59th Street Uptown 1 train was filled with the most beautiful music from an extraordinary cellist tonight. The piece I heard him play was classical (I didn’t recognize it), and the cellist got applause from everyone on the platform, which I’ve never seen in my fifteen years in the city.
If I didn’t have to get to get to Barnes & Noble before midnight, I would have stayed on the platform a little longer. It was a beautiful New York moment.
Photo taken by iPhone and posted with WordPress iPhone app.
David Byrne already represented two of my favorite things: eclectic taste in music and New York City. On his internet radio station – 
One of entertainment’s most interesting personalities both on and off the screen is becoming the official new announcer for the New York Philharmonic’s weekly, nationally-syndicated broadcast. Alec Baldwin begins his run on Wednesday September 16th, which is also opening night for the orchestra.