Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out where the former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams will be playing in a couple of months. We’ll also get details on where Mayor Eric Adams has gone for a few days.
Bernie Williams has played in places like Central Park and Times Square. And the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village, the city’s biggest jazz club. And the Café Carlyle on the Upper East Side. And the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
As a guitarist.
When he played baseball with the Yankees, he was known in the clubhouse as the guy with the guitar and the amplifier next to his locker. He took the guitar on road trips. Since his last game with the Yankees nearly 20 years ago, Williams has gotten a degree in music.
Now he has gotten a gig at Carnegie Hall.
“The pressure’s on,” Williams said. “Pressure, expectations, a little bit of nervousness.” And the concert is not for three months.
He is to appear with the tenor Jonathan Tetelman, who in a conversation at Carnegie Hall on Monday joked about being the closer for the performance on Jan. 13. Williams said the program would be “a mix of things that I might be more comfortable with, popular-slash-jazz music.” Tetelman used the word “eclectic.” They will be backed up by violinists from the Met Orchestra and Katia Reguero, a violinist who is married to the Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor. (She played “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a game at Citi Field last month.)
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