With a new camera and off on a business trip to one of America’s most beautiful places, I had a good time in San Diego last week. Before I get too far away from the trip I want to note a couple of monuments I’ve observed on previous visits, both of which I got to …
Opera: Risë Stevens – June 11, 1913-March 20, 2013
Ah yes. Dear Risë Stevens. While she had retired from the Metropolitan Opera long before I moved to New York, she was nevertheless part of my music education. Have no idea where the recording might be now, but when I was the sweetest boy soprano in town, Mrs. Nell Perry – my voice teacher …
Life in New York: Our Recent Cultural Marathon
Photo: New York City Ballet New Yorkers like to joke about having the luxury of being able to handle the many cultural offerings available to them by spreading them out over a period of time. Not for us those cultural marathons out-of-town visitors undertake, those too many events crammed into too few days. (Still, truth …
Visiting the Vanderbilts
All the pleasures of the New York summer are not necessarily in the city. A celebration for a recent Sunday birthday provided the opportunity for a drive up the Hudson River. So off we went, heading up to Hyde Park, about 90 miles north of the city. Although the name “Hyde Park” is connected in …
Calling Back the 1920s and the 1930s
One of the great New York pleasures in the summertime is how much fun people seem to be having! Sure, there are the swells who go off to their country houses, or a week or two at the beach or in the mountains, but it seems to me that most people (at least the people …
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