Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
CLARYVILLE, NEW YORK
We learned last summer that NYC is a HOT place in the summer. To tell the truth, it's been hot but not as bad as last year. Because of the heat, people and we try to leave and go to cooler climes for a few days.
We just spent three days in Claryville at the Godici farm house in the Catskills. Two of our meals were fund raisers; one for the Neversink Farms and one for the Claryville Volunteer Fire Department.
The Neversink Farms attracted "No Fracking" Earth People. Everything we ate was organic and grown and prepared in neighboring farms. Good food.
We also ate at home where the food was best of all. A friend named Joe sent us some bacon and I mention him in this video.
Two days from now we head to California for several days in Santa Barbara and then a few days in Corona Del Mar. Upon return from California two short trips; one to Fire Island and one to the Jersey Shore. We're just trying to keep things cool!
Here's a bonus video I took the day before we left for Claryville. It'll take your breath away.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
LINCOLN CENTER & FIREWORKS SHOW
Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic - Star-Spangled Celebration
"The powerhouse combination of the Philharmonic and “The Commandant’s Own” celebrate America’s birthday with this spectacular display of musical fireworks."
The power of the Marine Corps Drum & Bugle Corps with the New York Philhramonic was overwhelming.
The Star Spangled Banner - arr. Toscanni
Fanfare for the Common Man - Copland
Strike Up the Band - Gershwin
Clarinet Concerto - Copland
Chester March - Dix
Theme from The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
Xylophonia - Green
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Raye
Washington Post March - Sousa
Semper Fidelis - Sousa
Ellis Island - Dix
Armed Forces Suite
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa
A Hot Dog from a cart on Columbus Circle, a patriotic concert in Avery Fisher Hall, and fireworks from our building's terrace. A great Fourth of July.
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Go to the video below and note the remarks at 3:33.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWoqB00rXQ
A man at Columbus Circle wanting to lose his independence on Independence Day!
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My all-American Ha
lal Hot Dog.
Any American with a sense of patriotism would have had a glistening eye and a tightening throat during this concert.
Then to the terrace on our building for the fireworks shows of New Jersey and the City of New York. All the time the Empire State Building was in dynamic patriotic colors.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
LINCOLN CENTER
Metropolitan Opera House
American Ballet Theater
Shakespeare Celebration - American Ballet Theatre
Approximate running time 2 hrs. 0 min.
ABT celebrates the Bard's 450th birthday with a magical double bill featuring Ashton's spellbinding The Dream, inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the meditation on romance, revenge and redemption, The Tempest, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
LINCOLN CENTER
Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic
Beethoven - Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No, 5, Emperor
Alan Gilbert - Conductor
Yefim Bronfman - Piano
Glenn Dicterow - Violin
Carter Brey - Cello
"The festival momentously concludes: Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow performs his final Philharmonic concerts, joining Bronfman and Principal Cello Carter Brey for Beethoven’s joyful Triple Concerto. And Bronfman closes his residency with Beethoven’s majestic Emperor Concerto, perhaps his most popular."
Please, watch video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMbwsAaJDM#t=15
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
MUSEUM
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Goya and the Altamira Family
Charles James: Beyond Fashion
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, 1746–1828). Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), 1787–88. Oil on canvas; 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.41)
Exhibition Objects
Goya and the Altamira Family
April 22–August 3, 2014
This exhibition features Goya's four portraits of members of the Altamira family, including the so-called Boy in Red, one of the Metropolitan Museum's most beloved Old Master paintings. Also on view is a fifth Altamira portrait, by AgustÃn Esteve. This is the first time these family portraits—now dispersed in public and private collections in Spain and the United States—have been seen together as a group.
Charles James: Beyond Fashion
The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute examines the career of legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978), and is presented in two locations—special exhibition gallerieson the Museum's first floor and The Costume Institute's Anna Wintour Costume Center on the ground floor. It explores James's design process, specifically his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today. The retrospective features approximately sixty-five of the most notable designs James produced over the course of his career, from the 1920s until his death in 1978.
The first-floor special exhibition galleries spotlight and analyze the resplendent glamour and breathtaking architecture of James's ball gowns. On view are fifteen dramatically lit, iconic James gowns including the "Clover Leaf," "Butterfly," "Tree," and "Swan" from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Analytical animations, text, x-rays, and vintage images tell the story of each gown's intricate construction and history.
The Anna Wintour Costume Center's Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery provides the technology and flexibility to dramatize James's craft. A pathway winds around a cruciform platform where the evolution and metamorphosis of James's day and evening wear are explored in four categories: Spirals & Wraps, Drapes & Folds, Platonic Form, and Anatomical Cut. Video animations focused on the most representative examples of his approach are shown on monitors, and live-feed cameras detailing the backs of garments are projected on the walls. The Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel Gallery displays ephemera from James's life and work, including drawings, pattern pieces, dress forms, jewelry maquettes, scrapbooks, and accessories.
"Outstanding . . . a tour de force of masterworks."—New York Times
"The show itself is pretty extraordinary."—David Byrne
"The curators...have created an intelligent and playful account of the way [James] fused glamour and architecture in cloth."—The Economist
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