Either/Or, including Anthony Burr, clarinetist; Jane Rigler, flutist; and Richard Carrick and David Shively, percussionists, also employed the cimbalom, the Hungarian pianolike mutant whose twang remains familiar to boozy evenings in late-night Central European bars.
Accordingly, the festival, running from June 27 to Aug. 16, will serve up both the well known and the less familiar over 44 evenings at the Chapin Rainbow Stage in Heckscher Park.
These were the years when their familiar set gathered in the evenings for what they called the Memoir Club, for which he wrote many of what later became the best sections of his autobiography, and where he was, nevertheless, outshone by his wife and Maynard Keynes.
Evenings fall into a familiar routine.
This is very much the sound familiar to those who spent their evenings poised over the pause button, searching for a stable signal.
Most evenings, a crowd of familiar faces congregates at the long bar, helping themselves to trays of collard greens, mac and cheese, and fried chicken from a counter in the back, and tapping their feet to "Take the A Train" (though the 2 and 3 are closer).
Recently incinerated, and with the ashen pallor and anxious charisma of a new and fresh heartbreak, I returned a few evenings ago to my familiar perch at the bar I do not like.
The full-evening work tells that familiar ballet story of a spirited lass who loves her spirited but poor lad and refuses to go along with parental pressures to marry a rich nerd.
All the full-evening ballets that people were familiar with had complicated plots, with swans and princesses and broken hearts, and that fact helped to stamp ballet in people's minds as a quaint, fairy-tale business.
If you're used to working in a corporate environment but also being cool during evenings and weekends, then you might be familiar with dual-booting: I've been known to have my Macs run Windows on a Boot Camp partition for when I need to pierce the veil and travel to the Microsoft realm.
