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The Knight Marries the Prince
A Kindergarten Original Blesses a Quaker Wedding Friday morning I heard a wedding song I realized I would have to sing that night at an actual wedding. Class K-1 at the Brooklyn Children’s School was the third kindergarten … Continue reading
CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND TAIKO DRUMS
Pink Splendor and Banging Dramatics on the Esplanade The end of April the Brooklyn Botanic Garden holds the Sakura Matsuri Festival, scheduled to coincide with the spectacular blossoming of the cherry trees on the Garden’s Esplanade. Nature holding … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Live! On Stage, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged blossoms, botanic garden, brooklyn, Catherine Gayer, cherry, drum, Edward Elder, Esplanade, festival, Sakura Matsuri, Taiko, Taiko Masala
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FIRST GRADE ALIENS RIDE PEOPLE’S HEADS!
Another Year, Another Silly First Grade Opera! Actually, another three first grade operas at the Brooklyn Children’s School, created, written, composed and performed by first graders themselves, under the direction of their teachers and their teaching artist Mister Danny. … Continue reading
Posted in Live! On Stage, The Teaching Artist
Tagged aliens, brooklyn, car wash, Children's School, dog, first grade, Opera, pet, silly, slobber, teaching artist
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IF ONLY THE POE COTTAGE HAD BEEN OUR TELL-TALE MURDER HOUSE!
That is the Poe Cottage in the Bronx. The last home Poe resided in before he died. We had hoped to make it our Tell-Tale musicabre movie murder home. But alas, it is not to be! Most of the short … Continue reading
FACES. REFLECTIONS. REFRACTIONS.
Some more expected and unexpected impressions at the Brooklyn Museum First, encounters with some singular faces. It’s hot and humid out, but she is eternally the embodiment of frigid winter.
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin'
Tagged Americas, brooklyn, busts, Ed Elder, faces, glass, idols, museum, Painting, portrait, reflection, refraction, statue, transformation
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Museum Impressions
Yesterday at the Brooklyn Museum with an unwitting special focus on the feminine
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Female form, feminine, feminism, mirrors, museum, nudes, photography, reflections
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BROOKLYN PRIDE
Park Slope Comes Out! Highlights from the June 9 Brooklyn Pride Street Fare and Parade We are Family – Sisters Sledge
These Roses are Ready for their Close-Up, Mr. DeMille!
Another year… another June… This year the rose garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden had received a “hard cut”, as we heard a passerby explain. Which made it still lovely but less lush than in years past. So I’ll focus … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged A Rose by any Name, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Beth Ditto, Bette Midler, Blondie, botanic garden, brooklyn, Debbie Harry, Ethel Merman, For the Boys, Imelda Staunton, James Horner, June, Kate Winslet, Linda Lavin, Makin' Whoopee, Patti LuPone, Rosalind Russell, Rose, Roses, The Rose, Titanic, Tyne Daly
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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES’ BROOKLYN STOPOVER
In which Ed and I become Monarch Butterfly Paparazzi Ed and I returned from the gym to find a flock of Monarch butterflies flapping about outside our window. It appears that a particular vine wrapped around our garden fence was … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Butterfly, Humming Chorus, Madame Butterfly, migration, Monarch, North America, Park Slope, Puccini
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WATER LILIES (Pics and Tunes)
Testing out the new camera at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Lily #1 (for details on the “Lily” songs, check on the “tags” at the bottom of the post) Lily #2
CHERRY BLOSSOMS GALORE!
Back in the BBG You don’t know just what you’ll see, boy! Back in the BB Back in the BB Back in the BBG (with apologies to The Beatles:) It’s peek cherry blossom blooming season this weekend at the Brooklyn … Continue reading
