THE history of rock 'n' roll in New Jersey is inextricably tied to the early years of the Stone Pony, New Jersey's pre-eminent night club in the once-thriving shore town of Asbury Park.
On Wednesday night this eminent 73-year-old maestro, now a little freer to accept guest appearances, conducted the New York Philharmonic after an absence of nearly 20 years.
| Feb. 23 at 8: Elegantly eminent for four decades, the Guarneri String Quartet has announced that it will retire at the end of the 2008-09 season.
He was scheduled to visit the home of a prominent Jewish art dealer one night, and the following night to visit the home of the most eminent Jew in the British Empire.
Either way, the focus of tributes at 7 tonight and at 4 on Sunday afternoon is on eminent musicians.
The British Academy will wipe out that anomaly on Sunday night when the eminent 88-year-old is handed a special fellowship award at the annual ceremony in London.
Nevertheless, David Pelham, the show's producer and a man as combative as its creator, had poured money into advertising the London opening at the Cambridge Theatre, and invited an impressive list of eminent figures to the first night on 5 May, many of whom, impervious to, or perhaps intrigued by, the storm warnings in the press, actually turned up.
Next morning, in strolls eminent historian and natural-born-showman David Starkey, resplendent in a green striped shirt and linen jacket.
These tried-and-true roles were reversed at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, when the eminent pianist Richard Goode was joined by a talented newcomer, the soprano Sarah Shafer, in a program of Schubert, Brahms and Mahler presented by the People's Symphony Concerts series.
| March 16 at 8: Ivan Moravec, the eminent interpreter of Debussy, Mozart, and Chopin, brings his best to the Met, playing pieces by all three composers along with a selection of Debussy's "Images".
A surprise for the evening was the eminent author and psychiatrist Herant Katchadourian, author of Guilt: The Bite of Conscience (he's Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Human Biology at Stanford University), spoke for a few minutes to give a psychiatric evaluation of the novella's protagonist, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin.
