...the "house" in question is the newly reopened Alice Tully Hall, at New York's Lincoln Center. Turns out three of us from here in Columbia will get to be a part of the ongoing series of concerts in the days ahead to celebrate that reopening...on Friday Feb. 27 bassoonist Peter Kolkay will be playing there with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; next Tuesday March 3, bassoonist Michael Harley will be playing with the group Alarm Will Sound as part of a marathon concert at the hall, which concludes with Steve Reich and Musicians playing Music for 18 Musicians, and I'll be playing in Reich's band for that part of the concert. The Columbia connection continues in a sense the very next night; Derek Bermel, whose works Alarm Will Sound will be playing at Tully, flies down to the Midlands to play clarinet with Music from Copland House, who will be playing on the Southern Exposure concert series at the USC School of Music.