{"id":1082,"date":"2016-04-23T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2016-04-23T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:27:23","slug":"new-york-city-blog-april-17-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog – April 17 – April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I went to a lovely performance of NYCB George Balanchine\u2019s Jewels<\/em>. Leave it to Balanchine to be inspired by Van Clef and Arpels and choreograph a three act ballet with each distinct act having the music of a different composer. The music for Emeralds is by Gabriel Faure. Rubies\u2019s music is by Igor Stravinsky and Diamonds\u2019 music is by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky.What a glorious smorgasbord!
\nIn two weeks I\u2019ve seen two biopics about two brilliant, egotistical musicians who must have been hell to live with. Last week I saw Miles Ahead,<\/em> the biopic about Miles Davis. This week I saw a companion piece, Born to Be Blue<\/em>, the biopic of Chet Baker. Don Cheadle as Miles Davis and Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker were utterly convincing as obsessive musicians. I guess that\u2019s what they call acting. Remember the equally convincing Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line<\/em>? One tiny quibble: no one can sing My Funny Valentine, the song with a tender melody and mean lyrics, like Chet Baker not even Ethan Hawke. Wouldn\u2019t it have been fun to have been at The All About Eve wrap party? Hanging with George Sanders and Bette Davis etc. while Chet Baker and Jerry Mulligan played.<\/p>\n

As if you didn\u2019t know, William Shakespeare\u2019s birthday is tomorrow. Four hundred years since his death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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