In the intermission, though, thanks to a remark she made to the man on her left, he discovered that in fact she was listening, through the earphone of a transistor radio, to the same concert over Station WNYC, and achieving...do-it-yourself stereo.
Metal shutters and gates blocked entrances to the metro system, and locals were warned to avoid concerts, train stations, shopping malls, and other venues that see large gatherings.
A few hours later, Mr. Derderian arranged for a colleague to videotape a Great White concert at the Station, a rock club in West Warwick, a Providence suburb.
Compared with the band's first show in the United States, when its members appeared stupefied at a Los Angeles radio station concert, unable to believe that Americans had really embraced their music, Coldplay has come a long way as live performers.
Sites like Art of the States (artofthestates.org), sponsored by WGBH radio of Boston; the American Music Center's NewMusicJukebox (newmusicjukebox.org); and Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar (www.kalvos.org) continually document the breadth and vivacity of American musical creativity in a way that, given its relatively tiny audience, no concert promoter or station manager could possibly afford.
Another evening of old-fashioned fun was had last week celebrating 30 years of John Schaefer broadcasting on WNYC with an appropriately eclectic concert at the station's beautiful Greene Space.
Well, you've got nothing on Will and Monifa Sims, who delivered an impromptu gas station concert that was so impressive Jay Leno invited them on "The Tonight Show" on Wednesday.
Our concert at Penny Station in 1974, however, was so special that we kept it and I´m glad we did and also that the tape survived all those years without decay.
Also attending the subway station concert was the dancer Maurice Hines, who is creating the choreography for and starring in a revival of Sophisticated Ladies, a review of Ellington's music that will be performed at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., in spring 2010; Hines said the production would also "go all over the country and travel the world".
Another weekend, another pop radio-station concert with stars doing obeisance and would-be stars hoping programmers are pleased.
Jazz musicians themselves often attend concerts at One Station Plaza, which can lead to some impromptu guest appearances.
