New York City in the Spring

I was in New York city last weekend for the Heritage Festival at Riverside Church, with choirs from as far away as California, Florida and Newfoundland.  While in the city I visited the newly opened, Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum and the Mahayana Buddhist temple, took a Sunday morning walk on the Highline and heard a pianist play Beethoven, Bach, Chopin and Satie in the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park.  The food highlight was pan fried hand-pulled noodles with chicken and shrimp at "Tasty Hand Pulled Noodles" in Chinatown.   A bag of Blue Bottle coffee beans was the take-home.  I saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a brilliantly staged adaptation of the book that brings Christopher Boone's experience with the world into vivid focus (and is nominated for practically every Tony award) and Darren' Criss' performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.  It was crazy and loud.