Thursday, April 19, 2007

New Amsterdam report

Manhattan stands tall and proud...the visit proceeds briskly. We visited Lincoln Center last night, to see the Puccini opera about east vs. west, Madame Butterfly. This morning, a rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic, which is nearing an important milestone--15,000 concerts since the days when P.I. Tchaikovsky was guest conducting. Then this afternoon, the "New Colossus," the grande dame in the harbor, who accepts at least some of the tired, poor huddled masses who yearn to be free, and the immigrant processing center where my grandparents and many thousands of others got their first glance of the USA. The Hungarians welcome us tomorrow--that is, after we inspect the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh, and there was a glimpse of the place where they used to have a wall to separate whites from the natives...it's a street now, don't you know, with dollar signs on it.

Message to everybody: Manhattan or Bust!!

4 comments:

jodmeister said...

Have you seen the whale that decided to go sightseeing in Brooklyn Harbor?

moville said...

Yes, I saw it in the papers--you heard it died, right? So did Kitty Carlisle Hart, the woman who was on "to tell the truth" for about l50 years. she was a real grande dame of the arts here.

jodmeister said...

No, I didn't hear it died. I did know Kitty Carlisle died. And now two died in Houston when some dude took a hostage in Building 44 of the Johnson Space Center. Aye carumba, April is turning into one large suckfest!

moville said...

Eliot wasn't lying--april IS the cruelest month, no question about it.