Highly esteemed fellow columnist Leah Garchik had two music items in the Thursday edition of The San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Ballet orchestra concertmaster Roy Malan is director of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, too. This year’s festival, the 40th at Telluride, starts Thursday. He was driving there when he was pulled over for speeding.After the officer noticed that he had a violin in the backseat of the car, "Malan played him a few measures of Kreisler’s Liebesleid,” reports Malan’s eyewitness/wife, Polly Malan, "and promptly got his fine slashed by two-thirds. For his roadside performance, Malan had received the highest by-the-note fee of his career."
[San Francisco Opera Director of Music Administration] Kip Cranna was on a Danube cruise that included a stop at a well-known restaurant in Budapest, where the menu was, thankfully, translated to English for non-Hungarian speakers. One offering: "Confit mangalica pork shoulder with sausage letcho and yellow pee purée."
Lecsó (thick vegetable ragout or stew) is untranslatable, and pee is a misspelling, but it takes a true foodie to say what "confit mangalica" may be. SFCV contributor Lisa Hirsch says it's pork cooked in oil or fat of some kind, presumably from the Mangalitsa pig. "Confit" just means "stewed in oil." One eats and learns.