{"id":754,"date":"2015-05-16T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2015-05-16T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:11:20","slug":"new-york-city-blog-may-10-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog May 10-16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I went to an afternoon concert at Carnegie Hall expecting to hear mezzo-soprano, Sarah Craft Nelson. What a surprise to open the program and discover I was about to hear the Bob Jones University Singers. Why not? Eventually, Sarah Nelson Craft appeared under the aegis of the Masterworks Festival Chorus and New York City Chamber Orchestra. Her lustrous voice soared and glided in Vivaldi\u2019s Gloria.<\/em>
\nLater in the day a friend and I indulged in Minetta Tavern\u2019s marrow bones and the bartender\u2019s traditional Tom Collins. Like Sardi\u2019s the Minetta Tavern\u2019s walls are covered with caricatures of well know and unknown and forgotten celebrities.<\/p>\n

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A Columbia alumnus and I went to the Cosmopolitan Club\u2019s Library for a Columbia sponsored talk on George Eliot’s Middlemarch<\/em>. The participants fell over themselves musing about women\u2019s rights in nineteenth century England. Have you noticed how Middlemarch<\/em> has become one of those books you MUST like? The Cosmopolitan\u2019s library is a dream. It\u2019s filled with books: fiction, non-fiction, weighty dictionaries, picture books. There are comfy chairs to flop in and read or daydream or gaze out the eighth floor windows at Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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A late afternoon CMS Spanish Dances concert at Alice Tully Hall rounded off a busy week. A Boccherini string quintet followed by Paganini\u2019s Terzetto Concertante featured the fabulous classical guitarist, Jason Vieaux. After the intermission, Alessio Bax, the pianist and Benjamin Beilman, the violinist roared through several pieces by Falla and then topped their performance with Ravel\u2019s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Both performers are determined and exciting. I had given up a performance at Carnegie Hall to see Bax and was not disappointed.<\/p>\n

About time: the Vatican finally recognized the State of Palestine.<\/p>\n

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