New York has its pleasures too - what a nice thing when friends from out of town show them to you! Some Japanese friends were here for the past few days, and on their Brooklyn day we took in not just the Captain America statue by the Prospect Park Carousel but Brooklyn Bridge Park. They'd bought tickets for BargeMusic, something I've heard of but never attended: enchanting as the St. Petersburg Piano Quartet played Vivaldi and Brahms in a resonant converted coffee barge, bobbing as boats passed on the East River...
