Make a list of possible dates, including group dates as well as more romantic one-on-one evenings out.
In the end, the focus of "One Evening" was less on Schubert than on Beckett, and the production worked best as an oblique dramatization of those occasions when the writer absorbed "Winterreise" in isolation.
"One Evening" was not an evening for Schubert purists.
The personal connection to a composer that arises when you see hand-scripted notation made me even more curious to attend the American premiere of "One Evening" — a work of music theater directed by Katie Mitchell, exploring the impact of "Winterreise" on the writings of Samuel Beckett — that night.
The last one, "Evening, Honfleur," is a tender portrait of the seaside resort on the Normandy coast where the young artist passed the summer of 1886.
At its core "One Evening" is an ominous and imaginative, if not entirely effective, musical drama.
The Walrus and the Quintessence sail out of New Rochelle and were competing in a race sponsored by the Can One Evening Race Association, which has run Thursday night races for 27 years.
Like "Four Quartets," "One Evening" is a presentation of Lincoln Center's experimental New Visions series and was shaped by Katie Mitchell, a director renowned for symbiotic fusions of live performance and video.
LATE ONE EVENING LAST SUMMER, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian-American civil rights advocate and one of the Arab world's leading social scientists, was working in his study - a spacious one, on a quiet, tree-lined street in the suburb of Maadi, one of Cairo's most fashionable neighborhoods.
When friends ask me about the highlight of our Tanzanian safari, I don't say the pride of lions we saw on one early-evening game drive, or the herd of elusive greater kudu grazing yards from our truck.
And donors who would underwrite the $700,000 cost of a one-evening event were few and far between.
