I took time....

Yes, tonight I was actually home. I saw this program on PBS "Live from Lincoln Centre in New York - Gil Shaham, Violinist....."....and I watched and listened and was amazed at this man's ability and talent. Such a gift.

A little bit of a bio about this fellow, if you didn't know already:

"Mr. Shaham was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1971. He moved with his parents to Israel where at the age of 7 he began violin studies with Samuel Bernstein of the Rubin Academy of Music and granted annual scholarships by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981, while studying with Haim Taub in Jerusalem, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic. That same year he began his studies with Dorothy DeLay and Jens Ellerman at Aspen. In 1982, after taking first prize in Israel’s Claremont Competition, he became a scholarship student at Juilliard, where he has worked with Ms. DeLay and Hyo Kang. He has also studied at Columbia University.
Gil Shaham was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius. He lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony and their two children. "

Now that's what I call an evening of classic entertainment......and I could have been baking or cleaning or any number of really fun things. It's good to relax once in a while, to take time out and enjoy other people's gifts.:-)

Speaking of which, I'll have to get busy and start to buy some.............gifts that is...............34 days 'til Christmas.................:-)