A Mahler-loving cat showed up at a recent performance by the Israel Philharmonic. Nancy Pelosi, who was in the audience, proposed that the cat be named Zubin. Incidentally, a source at the Met tells me that Pelosi is a fan of Philip Glass and attended a performance of Satyagraha this spring. One might detect a trace of her enthusiasm in a speech she gave on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
