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Last night the New York Philharmonic played Prospect Park. The glowing tent of the orchestra was a spaceship squatting on the ballfields. Or: Theresa noted that it evoked a gigantic manta ray. The first half was Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins," sung by Audra McDonald. Her voice was lovely-haunting and cool, slightly alien as it floated across on an breeze that came in from the north end of Long Meadow. We ate stinky cheese and roasted chicken and watched the clouds as they held onto the last pink of the evening.
Ravel came on after the intermission and woke up all the dreamy babies on our little rise. There are a lot of babies out on a summer evening in Prospect Park.
Posted by B T at July 19, 2001 12:08 PM