Headed to NYC soon for a 5-day cultural extravaganza. I do wish I was staying a few weeks longer (!) because there's so much I'd like to see and do when there, and I can't possibly fit it all in. Highlights include:
- Joyce DiDonato as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera.
- Peter Sellars' Othello - Public Theater @ NYU, w/ soundscape and sound design by Mark Grey. Newsday called it a 4-hour "lengthy psycho-political exercise." Hmmm...I'm intrigued.
- David Aaron Carpenter, viola, and music of Takemitsu, Penderecki, Prokofiev and Piazzolla w/ visual artist Kevork Mourad - at Le Poisson Rouge (serving art and alcohol), whose mission is to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry; to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences.
- The U.S. premiere of John Tavener's Requiem at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola - part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series - Kent Tritle, music director.
And lots of get-togethers and tweetups with music-loving friends, new and old. Then, tackling a wall of work when I return! I'll catch Alan Gilbert conducting the NY Phil when I'm back in New York in a couple of months. So much music, so little time.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." ~Rachmaninoff
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