Friday night we went to NJPAC in Newark for the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra who are on a world tour. They are mostly all strings, but brought out two horn and two clarinets for a Boccherini symphony [No. 4 in D minor]. They also did pieces by Vivaldi, Rossini and Tchaikovsky. The audience, it being New Jersey, was filled with Russian immigrants who applauded enough to get four encores. Vladimir Spivakov is the conductor and violin soloist.
Saturday we went to NYC for Lady Day at Emerson’s, a tribute to Billie Holiday starring Audra McDonald, and I mean STARRING. She did an amazing job singing and acting. She sounded exactly like Billie Holiday does on the recordings that I have. I would say a sure bet for the Tony.
We found ourselves in a big street fair on Ninth Ave. walking from the parking lot to the restaurant, Chez Napoleon, a fav of ours. The fair had the usual gamut of cuisines from the four corners, clothes, linens, china, hair stuff, henna tats, crafts and you name it.
New blooms: jack-in-the-pulpit, lily-of-the-valley, Asian lilac, wild cherry.
Cardinal on her nest. She is next to the house and flies off when we go in or out.
Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra at NJPAC, Vladimir Spivakov conducting.
Ninth Ave street fair Saturday afternoon.
Choice of cuisines-Irish, Scottish, Italian, Polish on this block.
Theatre Marquee at Circle-in-the Square Theatre.
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