
3/30/2007
MET Opera
Wednesday night we went to the Metropolitan Opera. It was the first opera in my life-time, premiering at NY Met isn't too bad, right? :-). We enjoyed Verdi's La Traviata. The Met premises are really spectacular, orchestra accompaniment was brilliant, the scenes were gorgeous and the music was delicious and sentimental. I must confess that I spent half a play crying like a Magdalene. In fact, the "Amami Alfredo" aria sank me down and from that point I was moved the rest of the play. Unforgettable.




3/27/2007
Salvador Espriu

Oh, how tired I am of my
craven old brutish land,
and how I'd like to get away from it
to the north
where they say people are clean
and noble, learned, rich, free
wide-awake and happy.
Then in the congregation, the brothers would say
disapprovingly: "Like the bird who leaves the nest
is that man who forsakes his place,"
while I, now far away, would laugh
at the law and ancient wisdom
of this, my arid village.
But I must never follow my dream
and I'll stay here till I die.
For I'm craven and brutish too.
And what's more I love, with a
desperate grief,
this my poor,
dirty, sad, unlucky homeland.
3/17/2007
3/16/2007
Broadway Musical

3/13/2007
Carnegie Hall

Yesterday we went to the most famous music hall in NYC. It was a trip organized by the OISS within the USFest program. The first premiere of Carnegie Hall was performed by Tchaikovsky and all the music celebrities of the last century played there. The hall has a little museum in which you can find among many other treasures, original programs signed by Pau Casals.

3/11/2007
Our NYC sweet home
Take a look at this nice tower and check out its building website.
That's our NYC home. It's amazing, right?
Ask for us there if you visit Downtown Manhattan.
Henry Kaufman Management Center
3/02/2007
Anti-Establish Mints
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