Billie and I went down to Trinity today to hear
the St Thomas boy choir again. It was a totally different program from last night's
evensong which was mostly chant. Additionally, last night was the full choir
but today was the treble choir of younger boys with more "modern" music like
Handel, Bach , Britten, Faure, and Sullivan. They actually did a kind of nice
arrangement of The Lost Chord arranged by their director John Scott. I think the song is ridiculously schmaltzy, but it was the real crowd pleaser on the program.
I have no idea what this was about, but these women got plenty of attention walking down Wall Street in their red dresses.
We had
lunch at a cute place John and I found last time called Hampton Chutney. I
noticed they had a little play area for kids in the front window and while I was
taking a picture of it I realized that Elvis really is still alive.
As we were finishing lunch, I thought I'd check to see if there was a free wifi signal anywhere. Check out the screen from my ipod.
Tonight
we went to a very funny and timely play that was written in 1978 but still
valid. It's called We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay. It easily translated from that period in Italy with big divides between rich and poor and government corruption, etc. The play was done with sort of clown makeup, which the two more intelligent members of our group said was Commedia Dell'Arte, so it had a slapstick effect on a serious subject.
I could have done without the final monologue of the play where the main character exhorted us to realize that society was unfair -- you had to be brain dead not to have gotten it by that point.
Martha bought us some yummy dessert at the EuroPan after the performance. This is a picture of the three of us after the play tonight. Are we stunning or what?
I bought two more pairs of those skinny pants. I hope to hell they don't shrink when I wash them.
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