Some Cultured Pearls

The Mistress is still getting caught up with blogging and reading them. After being gone this weekend again, more later, I'm still running behind. While completing duties for work last week in Chevy Chase, it was off directly in the towne car to meet up with the Prince Charming for a evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a event. It was hosting a South African Wine Tasting, with dinner and a evening of art, and the Prince Charming knew it would be up my alley. You'd had to go to Anna Wintour's Costume Institute Ball to find more dapper gays at the Metropolitan Museum than the comely crowd that assembled last Friday night for the Upper East Side institution's wine event.The event seemed to be a smash, but who was I to complain, when I'm being plyed with South African drink. We tasted seven reds alone and various white wines, listened to a great presentation and music, and met several interesting people including a lady visiting from Sweden.








We were even sober enough to take in some African art in the wing.





Getting up Saturday it was off to Harrisburg to catch up with the family. The Aunt and Uncle had invited the Mother and I to the Whitaker Center after dinner to see the talent and stylings of the Juillard String Quartet. What a treat it was. The Juilliard String Quartet continues its vibrant tradition of music-making and education in the 2011/12 season, with Joseph Lin as its new first violinist and colleague on the faculty of The Juilliard School. The Quartet will appear worldwide in prestigious venues, including pairs of concerts in New York City Philadelphia and Harrisburg, at the Ravinia Festival, at Stanford University, and abroad in Berlin, Munich, London, Tokyo, Osaka and Macau, China. It was a good evening.