A frosty cool day in March @ Lincoln Center, Manhattan West
March 2nd, 2019
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Intimate Conversations
@Lincoln Center
Manhattan, NYC
December 30th, 2018
Available Light || Lincoln Center
Available Light was a 1983 creation, a collaboration between three American icons: choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles.
The work was revived in 2015 and it was this updated version that we had the chance to enjoy as part of Lincoln Center’s ”Mostly Mozart Festival”, in 2018. Lucinda Childs’ interpretation of John Adams’ music that moves and unfolds like an expanding universe, was a deceivingly simple – in reality highly complex, energetic choreography, wonderfully complemented by Frank Gehry’s architectural set design.
A compilation of interviews with with John Adams, Lucinda Childs and Frank Gehry, with photographs of the original production, can be found in this 2015 article, by Julie Lazar, curator of the original work, in 1983.
Jazz @ Lincoln Center
July 13th, 2018
First comes sweat
Evening_walks @Lincoln_Center
New York City
June 29, 2018
Diptych for a Night at the Opera
Running Man
A Night at the Opera, Die Zauberflöte
Casual chic
’70s Greece
Hell’s Kitchen
Kneeling Woman
A Monument to Debussy, Aristide Maillol
Bronze
1930-1933 France
Lincoln Center
September 30th, 2017
Socializing
in Lincoln Center.
With music and drinks, followed by more music in an evening tagged as ”born of ice and fire”.
With the New York Premiers of Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Wing on Wing, written for and featuring soprano sisters Anu and Piia Komsi, and Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s etherial Aeriality (ice) –
and a superb performance by the New York Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence for 2016-2017, renowned violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who played Brahms’ Violin Concerto (fire).
After the concert, we were joined by some of the Philharmonic musicians who, following the ”obligatory” Q&A session, simply mingled with the guests for some more music and drinks.
No, Mr. Kavakos was not among them.
#nyppolaris
May 20th, 2017
3…2…1… Liftoff!
Metropolitan Opera House
May 14th, 2017
The Wall of Fame – part II
Those were the days…!
Benjamin Morris, plan for a new Met, 1928
Architect Benjamin Morris, who had also proposed plans for the West 57th Street opera house, continued to work with the Met board’s New Site Committee. In May 1928, Morris presented a plan for the land now occupied by Rockefeller Center. His proposal for an opera house facing a plaza, surrounded by commercial towers, was the origin of what would later become the Center. 
Benjamin Morris, plan for Metropolitan Square, 1928
Metropolitan Opera House
May 14th, 2017
The Wall of Fame – part I
At the lower level of the lobby at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Cecil Beaton photographed his La Traviata costume designs for the September 15, 1966 issue of Vogue magazine.
Metropolitan Opera House
May 14th, 2017
An intergalactic brunch
Under Marc Chagall’s murals and the iconic ”sputnik” chandeliers. Donated by the Republic of Austria as a gesture of thanks for the American initiative to mobilize the Marshall Plan, an aid to Western Europe to help rebuild its economy after the end of World World II, the ”sputniks” were designed by Hans Harald Rath for the historic glassware company Lobmeyr and were installed in 1966. 11 of them are in the lobby and 21 light up the auditorium. 
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
May 14th, 2017
