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Bergdorf's Windows and a little night music (February 27 AND March 24, 2009)

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Aloysius J. Gleek:


Friday, February 27, I was running to meet Meryl at the new Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.  (Well, Alice Tully Hall is at least forty years old, but it has been problematical acoustically since the beginning; the latest--and costliest--re-engineering has just been done, and the cognoscenti   have given it the thumbs up.) Thanks to Meryl, I got to see the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski, the conductor; the program: Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (1910) and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (1786) with Leon Fleisher on the piano before  the intermission, then two works from 2001, A Space Odyssey:  Ligeti's Atmosphères (1961) and Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra (1895-96). (Meryl is giving me Kultchuh! )

So, just at about 6:00 PM, I reached Bergdorf's on Fifth, between 57th and 58th (the women's  store, on the *WEST side of the Avenue; the men's store is exactly opposite, but smaller--of course!), and skidded to a halt; the windows were filled with paintings by Hunt Slonem, a friend of a friend. Anyway, it was raining and my iPhone was acting up--but I stopped and took some pictures (Meryl, I really did make it to the new 'at65' exactly 6:30--I swear!! Well, thank goodness for stalwart Pain Quotidien  is all I have to say...)

(re: me correcting the *WEST side of Fifth rather than first writing EAST for the Bergdorf's women's store on Fifth--sigh, it's the Aphasia, folks, it's the Aphasia, I swear--unless it's Alzheimer's also....Anyway, onward....)



New York

iPhone Album
Friday, February 27, 2009
6:00 - 6:10 PM

Bergdorf's Windows
Hunt Slonem

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http://www.huntslonem.com/

Meryl:
Pretty!

Imaginative, classy and cool.  8)

Thanks, John!  And thanks for making the symphony fun.  :-*

Aloysius J. Gleek:



--- Quote from: Meryl on March 06, 2009, 02:03:34 am ---Pretty!

Imaginative, classy and cool.  8)

Thanks, John!  And thanks for making the symphony fun.  :-*

--- End quote ---


Aww!--All I did was show up--you made it happen! Thanks!   :-*

karen1129:
Wow !!  Those pictures are awesome John.

Thank you for them !!!!

Oh, I love the symphony!!!
What I wouldn't give to live in NYC.

Mikaela:
Well, this gave me a true whiff of the wonders of the Big City!  :)

I especially loved the colour palette used, very deep and rich and lush. Napoleon's imperial France meets the secret inner chambers of the seraille.....

Thank you so much for your photo-reports, John.

It's like being there for a little while!  :)  NYC is special, no place like it.

Glad you managed to get to the Symphony anyway. Sounds wonderful.

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