Orphee Quest in Surreal NYC

All right you guys, before I proceed with this post, there is something you need to know. Troy is on vacation with his dad, which in our situation means that we won’t see each other until a week from today. I could have devoted this and a couple of other posts to how much I miss my son and how lonely I’ve been feeling without him. However, I am fully aware that speculations of that sort are hardly a blog material, which means that you would probably be bored to death reading them. Therefore, I made up my mind to catch up on more of Troy’s latest musical discoveries that I otherwise never had time to post about. So, there will be no whining here, rather a happy bunch of posts about my son Troy.

However, let me start with quite an unusual one that will hopefully spice up this blog’s slow summer.

Sunday morning caught my mom and I on our way to New York. A July day in Manhattan… Not exactly a piece of cake? It actually can be, if you have it in Café Sabarsky on 5th. And accompanied by their wonderful thickly creamed Viennese coffee, followed by a quick trip across the street to the Met Museum – it very well can be a piece of cake.

Before we make another step towards that glorious temple of world’s art, let me tell you something. All those people must have really gone to the Hamptons or something, but for the first time in my life, I found Manhattan half-empty which in case of this island, was a bit surreal but overall a very good thing.

Check out this pic, music lovers! Recognize what's in it?



Laissez-vous toucher par mes pleurs,
Spectres...
Lavre...
Ombres Terribles!

Yep, Lincoln Square it is.
Mind you, a completely empty one, enlivened only by the cool mist from the famous fountain and, brace yourselves, palm trees, white umbrellas and a gelato kiosk. Palm trees on Lincoln Square, palm branches dancing in the hot Manhattan breeze… Doesn’t get more surreal than that.

Back to the Met museum now.

To say that this place is my cave of Ali-Baba will be a huge understatement. It’s my temple, or it least one of them, for on Manhattan I got a few. So yesterday, as we got there, I put in some time towards Troy’s Orphee museum quest and I think did some good work. Judge for yourselves my friends and tell me what you think.





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Soyez sensibles
A l'exces de mes malheurs!

And  as a little bonus, how about Amour consoling Orphee in Act 1?

By the time Troy gets home, a nice Orphee Picture book will be waiting for him!

Cheers, everyone!