{"id":36,"date":"2005-04-22T22:48:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T22:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2005-04-22T22:51:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T22:51:30","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/36","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about contrast. There are many events here in NY,  in particular music events. At lunch time we met John for a concert at Trinity Church. It was performed by I Giullari Di Piazza and it was the story of the Black Madonna an Italian folk tale in song and dance.<br \/>\nThey frequently have lunchtime performances at Trinity Church which they stream live on the internet and then leave  up there for a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywallstreet.org\/video\/index.shtml\">Video of performance.<\/a><br \/>\nOf course since Borders is right next to Trinity we had to go and visit, Maria can never pass a bookshop.<br \/>\nWe spent the rest of the afternoon around the apartment and Maria finished a bear, at least I think it&#8217;s a bear, mostly it just looks like pink fluff, I&#8217;ll have to get John to take a picture.<br \/>\nIn the evening we were off out again, this time to the World Financial Center for a concert given by Julian Fleisher and his Rather Big Band. A very different type of musical event altogether. There were tables with tablecloths and romantic lights set out and they were serving Mocktails and Appertisers.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/fleisher1.jpg' alt='Julian Fleisher' \/><br \/>\nThe music was great, a mix of jazz, lounge music and elements of the Great American Songbook. A real contrast to lunchtime.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/fleisher2.jpg' alt='The Winter Gardens' \/><br \/>\nBy the time we got back home it was late and all John and Maria had energy for was a quick Thai takeaway and sleep. They refused to set up the computer for me so that&#8217;s why I couldn&#8217;t post, I wish they&#8217;d give me my own password, then I wouldn&#8217;t have to rely on them.<br \/>\nToday the weather has taken a turn for the worse and Maria and I spent the day in the apartment working. John&#8217;s home now but not really with us, he&#8217;s waiting for the Queen Mary 2 to pass us, he&#8217;s watching the webcam of her leaving the dock and getting ready to go out to the Hudson to get a photo of her passing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about contrast. There are many events here in NY, in particular music events. At lunch time we met John for a concert at Trinity Church. It was performed by I Giullari Di Piazza and it was the story of the Black Madonna an Italian folk tale in song and dance. They frequently have lunchtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearhugs.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}