– with Poem in Your Pocket Day tomorrow, April 30. Even better is a poem in your head.
Entries from April 2009
April 25, 2009
Fortune’s tunes
The Mannes Collegium’s Spring concert will be this Monday, April 27, at 8:15 in Goldmark Hall at Mannes, 85th Street east of Amsterdam Avenue. It’s free, but don’t be late, it’s also short. Our subject this semester is Fortune, as portrayed in music from late 15th and 16th century Italy (and dipping into [...]
April 25, 2009
LAST CHANCE and sneak peek at the Met
This is the last weekend for the exhibition of drawings from the collection of Jean Bonna at the Metropolitan Museum, and I finally got around to it last night. It is, as Carmen Bambach said in her curatorial talk, a pretty show with pretty pictures– not in itself a bad thing; but there’s no [...]
April 24, 2009
New events and Fortune’s whims
There are a bunch of concerts (and one play with music and one opera) in the offing, posted at Coming Attractions; among them, next Monday (4/28)’s end-of-semester concert by the Mannes Collegium, featuring sixteenth-century Italian music alluding to Fortune, her power and her variability.
