May 1, 10:40 a.m., Acquavella Gallery, 18 E. 79th St. Riva and I meet our friend (the almost-a-relative kind) Herb, an artist still active in his 90s who lives in NJ and takes public transportation to and from Manhattan to tour galleries. We have two of his large paper cuts hanging in our home. Herb’s …
Until recently at the Metropolitan Opera, my all-time favorite performance of Porgy and Bess was in 1971 at an outdoor theater on Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. No doubt the setting had something to do with it: When the residents of Catfish Row headed by boat to Kittiwah Island, they did in fact get on …
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