I heart NY!
Posted May 13, 2007 at 5:31 pm
One of my long held beliefs has been that I prefer smaller cities to the biggies. So, Boston over New York, San Fran over LA, DC over Chicago. That’s probably one of the reasons I haven’t been back to New York in something like 20 years, despite being a short flight or train ride away.
Well, silly me! Or more like, whatami, nuts?
I just spent a long weekend in NY with my aunt. What a great time! A highlight for me was attending a free organ recital at St. Thomas Church (right) on Fifth Ave in the Upper East Side. I hadn’t heard of the composer before (Buxtahude) but I am a fan of Baroque music and I love Gothic churches. It was incredible.
Besides this concert, there was theater, there were museums (lots of museums), and of course, there was food (we did French, Thai, and Italian the three nights I was there).
It won’t be another twenty years before I’m back!
May 13th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
My mother (Happy Mother’s Day, Mom) is a church organist, so I’ve heard plenty of Buxtehuda’s music. I couldn’t identify any of it at the moment, but I associate it with big, big sounds that fill the church and shake your bones.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Man, that church looks pretty splendid. I’ve been to NYC but not heard of that one. That’s another cool thing about New York: you never, never are finished, never get to the end of new stuff to discover. Now I want to go!