The best seat in the house (concert hall) with a treasured companion

I met 80-plus, sparkling Sonya recently at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, and discovered that her son, Renato, graduated Oberlin-- small world. It wasn't long before my new-found friend invited me to join her as a choir concert companion to Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus. It was my first formal musical touchdown post Bezerkeley…