And speaking of The Enabler... This morning on the way into to the auditions, I made a stop at Levain to pick up, what else, some cookies. It turns out that one of the other sub-pianists is also quite the foodie, and while we were talking about favorite food finds in NYC the other day, I discovered that he had not yet discovered Levain, so... And since he was playing the put-in rehearsal this afternoon, well... Needless to say, I believe I just made another "believer".

-And the conductor also tried a cookie too, so...