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NYMysteries – April 13<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I saw Francesco Rosi\u2019s 1975 film at the Film Forum. It\u2019s four hours long. A friend warned me to eat ahead of time. The film is based on Carlo Levi\u2019s 1945 memoir about his one year exile, Christ Stopped at Eboli.<\/em> The setting is Basilicata, a region in the Italian boot tucked between Puglia, Campagna and Calabria. The title suggests that nothing – hope, prosperity, fairness – goes beyond Eboli, the last train station in Basilicata. \u00a0The film director was the esteemed Ruggero Mastroianni, brother of Marcello. The film reminded me of Roberto Rossellini\u2019s Stromboli<\/em> (1950) and of Franco Brusati\u2019s Bread and Chocolate<\/em> (1975). The three films shine an unwavering light on Italian foibles.If only the U. S. A. and Israel had the Italian ability to examine their characteristics with a critical eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat in a row in the middle of the theater. Staring at me from the \u00a0back of seat, second one from the aisle, \u00a0was a plaque\u00a0dedicated to Elia Kazan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elia Kazan’s plaque at the Film Forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ever have this happen with a friend? You\u2019re convinced you gave her the tickets and she\u2019s convinced you didn\u2019t? That\u2019s what happened\u00a0 <\/span>to our tickets for Joyce DiDonato\u2019s Master Classes on Friday and Sunday. Who came to the rescue? Carnegie Hall! I called their help number and got help. I was instructed to show up at the box office with my printed-out tickets. I did. The clerk looked at my ticket. Unlike me, he could read. He pointed out very politely that I had two tickets, front to back for both Friday and Sunday. I met my friend in line. She was feeling guilty about having lost her tickets. And I was tempted. Yes, tempted to let her stew. What the hell, I told her I\u2019d been a dope and case solved. We stood in line, jammed ourselves into a tiny elevator to the 10th floor. Raced gracefully into the enormous room decked with two funereal bunches of flowers and grabbed two perfect seats in the second row center. The magic began. Joyce DiDonato entered with four accomplished singers. She manhandled them one by one. Alexandra Nowakowski, soprano, Maya Amir, mezzo-soprano, Keymon W. Murrah, countertenor and Aaron Crouch, tenor. They trusted her. We trusted her. It was two hours of rich, professional advice coupled with affection and respect. Talk about living in the moment. I love everything about opera except opera.<\/p>\n

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Joyce DiDonato
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Maya Amir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aaron Crouch, Tenor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Keymon W. Murrah, Countertenor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Graphic Lessons:<\/i> What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a\u00a0 <\/span>dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons:<\/i> Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: <\/i>NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned the murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. What\u2019s bugging him? His partner being stabbed ? His hated boss, Captain Dick Holbrook, being a trustee of the Windsor School?\u00a0 <\/span>Losing his girlfriend to Holbrook?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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