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After a scrumptious and CHEAP meal and lovely Tom Collins at Ginger\u2019s, a friend and I walked nine blocks south to the National Opera Center at 28th Street and Seventh Avenue. Fabrizio Melano directed \u201cAn Evening With Us,\u201c a series of scenes and arias. “Au fond du temple saint,” the duet from Georges Bizet’s 1863 opera, Les p\u00eacheurs de perles was, for me, the high point of the evening. Generally known as “The Pearl Fishers’ Duet”, it\u2019s a golden oldie. The tenor, Has Son Kim, was wonderful. The last time I heard it was at a church recital in Santa Fe. Roberto De Blasio, the Italian tenor, sang the Nadir role. He was perfect – unlike the night before when he had been Don Jos\u00e9 in Stephen Lawless\u2019s Carmen<\/em> at the Santa Fe opera. The ghastly production was set in the 1960s. De Blasio stalked around the state in Elvis regalia being very manly.<\/p>\n

Sunday late afternoons are often spent in the Frick Collection\u2019s Music Room. On. November 20 the Atos Trio (violin, cello, piano) played primarily nineteenth century French composers. Their opening piece was Claude Debussy\u2019s Trio in G Major. This season the Frick concert tickets include a brief historical note about an artist working at the same time as the featured composers. We leaned from the note that Claude Debussy was a friend of Edgar Degas. In the Frick\u2019s North Hall is a Degas painting, \u201cRehearsal\u201d. It portrays ballerinas rehearsing. They are accompanied by a very sad violinist whose forlorned expression rivets me. One of my favorite masochistic daydreams is the thought of dying in the poor house i. e. the women\u2019s room in Penn Station. The violinist\u2019s gnarled hands, his lined face and drooping baggy face are in sharp contrast to the ballerinas\u2019 limber, young legs.<\/p>\n

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