Singing at the Met

Not that Met, the other one.

We were sitting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when these guys set up shop and began singing old R&B. They sounded better in real life than this tinny reproduction from my camera. Still, it's a musical genre that's hard to resist.

Duh.

Whose bright idea was it that I leave NYC twenty years ago? Oh, right. Mine.

I was an idiot.


From the New Yorker Magazine online:


CORELLA BALLET CASTILLA Y LEÓN

The much loved Spanish ballet star Ángel Corella brings his fledgling troupe to New York for its début. In 2008, distressed at Spain’s lack of ballet companies, Corella founded his own with his sister Carmen, also a gifted dancer. Based in Segovia, the ensemble has forty-five dancers from around the world, including, as a guest artist, Carmen’s husband, the Argentine virtuoso Herman Cornejo. At City Center, the company will perform Corella’s first foray into choreography, “String Sextet,” set to Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir of Florence.” Also on the program: a ballet by Russell Ducker, a young company member; “Walpurgisnacht,” by Leonid Lavrovsky; and Christopher Wheeldon’s “DGV (Danse à Grande Vitesse),” a tour de force of speed and power. In what is sure to be a showstopper, Corella will perform a pas de deux with his sister, created for them by the flamenco diva María Pagés. (131 W. 55th St. 212-581-1212. March 17 at 7:30, March 19 at 8, and March 20 at 2 and 8.)

They're Playing My Song

Or: Yet Another Reason to Miss NYC

Video: "Hey Jude" Subway Sing-a-long - Gothamist

Hey Jude sing-a-long in Time Square Subway Station. 10:30 pm. March 7, 2010.

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