Paris at Night

We went to the Centre Pompidou late this afternoon to see the exhibition of Edvard Munch which is closing in a very few days. Our reaction was mixed.

Leaving (at about 6:45 pm) I blipped this view from the top level--raindrops account for the blurriness, and the weird structure in the lower left is part of the giant tube structure outside the very modern building which contains the escalators which carry one up to the exhibition spaces. The image really does need to be viewed large.

We then dashed to the Salle Pleyel, where we heard a wonderful performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto by the violinist Sergey Khachatryan (b. 1985 in Armenia). It's my favorite violin concerto, and the Mendelsohn which we heard on Sunday is a close second--what a week of concerts!