A review of the best things to enjoy in New York City.
(operanews) Considering Figaro is our favorite opera and Mozart our favorite composer, this was quite a feat. In fact, we were both dazed as we walked out that this could be happening. But really, we couldn’t stay. We know every note of this piece and have listened to it for 50 years–what was so terrible…
I admit it–I’m a fan of Agatha Christie and her two heroes–Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. I have read every one of her 80+ books and plays and enjoyed them–lurking Anti-Semitism and all. I was looking forward to the remake of Murder on the Orient Express, simply for the pleasure of sitting through the well-known…
Sometimes in my dreams, I imagine a musical heaven (something like the scene in Stairway to Heaven (powellandpressburger) where Rory and I are watching W. A. Mozart conduct his 42nd symphony and all our fellow music lovers are listening intently with us. That longing to hear more of a long-gone composer’s work came true at…
Billed as a romance, this is actually a nice film about parents and children–a subject some of us need to explore to understand more about our own. Kumail is a Pakistani stand-up wanna-be (filmcompanion.com)whose traditional parents want him to be a lawyer and marry a Pakistani girl. He has trouble telling them that he doesn’t…
No, I was not performing; I was in the audience on the fourth side of the cleverly designed stage area in David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher, home of the NY Philharmonic, named anew with a $100 million donation). We like these seats because they are very close to the music, I don’t get a…
You just have to get there at 9 am to get tickets. I am talking, of course, about Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater–the joyous Midsummer Night’s Dream. The music is eclectic–from Beale Street blues to rock to tango to gospel, produced by a terrific band, sung by an electrifying singer and danced…
After our usual reading of the Declaration of Independence, printed every year in the New York Times, we looked around for something Fourthy to do. It seemed as if this year especially, we wanted to celebrate differently, as if it was more important than usual. So we went downtown intending to go to Federal Hall.…
