nightmayer

Jottings from a pop culture junkie

Mary Poppins dropped onto New York City’s Little Island last night in the guise of the ever-elegant Cécile McLorin Salvant, gloriously using the often pouring rain, her clear bucket umbrella, and yellow rain slicker as impromptu props. Talk about going with the flow! As the sold-out cheerful, anticipatory crowd got wet on the line waiting …

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At 84, David Amram is ever the musical polymath, playing French horn, piano, percussion, flutes of all manner from around the globe — all with four additional musicians (bass player and three percussionists) on the postage stamp-sized stage of what he lovingly refers to as the Cornelia Street Stadium. (For those who haven’t been to …

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