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The Frick’s Angel

June 24, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post.] _____________________________________________________________ Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available to us.  Why? Because …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Barbet (Jehan), Breuer (Marcel), Cocktails with a Curator, Dalvit (Giulio), Frick (Henry Clay), Frick Collection, Frick Madison (New York City), Salomon (Xavier F.)

Living in New York: “Akhnaten” Revival at The Met

May 24, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Although we had Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in November, 2019, I didn’t get to share my thoughts about it when it came to us then. So here is some of what Guy has been thinking about Akhnaten, which opened last Thursday and runs through Friday, June 10 (the final performance of Akhnaten for this season and …

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Filed Under: History, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Akhnaten (opera), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Gandini Juggling, Glass (Philip), James (Zachary), Jugglers (in opera), Kamensek (Karen), Lárusdóttir (Disella), McDermott (Phelim)

Living in New York: Two Remarkable New Operas at the Met

May 18, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

We New Yorkers aren’t shy about our love of music, and opera remains high on our list. Despite the loss of the New York City Opera several years ago, and, sadly, very limited performances from the city’s many smaller, independent opera companies (due to the pandemic over the past two years), the Metropolitan is back …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Dean (Brett), Gelb (Peter), Hamlet (opera), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Jocelyn (Matthew), Metropolitan Opera Association, Rae (Brenda), Russell (Anna), Thomas (Ambroise)

The Russia-Ukraine War: What Do Young People Think?

April 17, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

It’s probably never easy to figure out how to react to what we hear and learn in wartime, in any war. The Russia-Ukraine war is no exception. Many of us – along with many other citizens throughout the world – found some level of comfort with what we thought were the effects of our famous …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Cold War, Conversation, Opinion (Young People), Russia, Russia-Ukraine War, Soviet Union

Russia-Ukraine War: A Change in Guy’s Posts

March 21, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

These posts recently moved – we might say – to a different point of view from the usual topics I write about here. Those will continue, of course (there are still two more posts to be published about my beloved Vienna, for example). But now I find myself moving into what we used to refer to as …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Blogs (personal), Russia-Ukraine War, Sharing Guy's Journey (blog), writers and writing

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