Right now I’m at Carnegie in the choral dress room. It’s
four. Rehearsal ended around one and then I went to eat at a diner with some
members of the chorus. I ordered pancakes. I don’t even really like pancakes (I
know that to many ears this is blasphemous, but I had my first one freshman
year of college, and blini and oladushki are significantly tastier, in my
humble opinion.)
Last night we were at
the Riverside Church rehearsing, and we got out around six and then I met up
with Liza. She showed me from the street which window was her dorm room. We got
Korean food together and we were both exhausted
beyond our wits. Still, it was nice to see her.
Then I got to Kostya’s apartment somewhere near 1st
Ave and 14th St, where I stayed the night. We had tea and talked and he practiced a
presentation he has to do today on me and then I fell asleep.
Maybe this is why I didn’t last very long in NYC; I woke up
in the middle of the night and couldn’t fall asleep. I watched the light in the
window come and brighten. I dreamt that I was in a glass botanical garden, and
a family lived there and then suddenly there was a ball there. But the girls
were trying too hard and the guys just wanted to get high. We were trying at
something that wasn’t going to happen. It was awfully realistic.
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We got back to Bard a little after one in the morning.
After the diner I wandered off, turning onto whatever street
looked most interesting, photographing. I bought some licorice and then found a
fountain on the same block. It was such a pretty open space, and the rush of
water blocked out NYC but for some reason the glory was fleeting, and soon I
found myself back in the choral rehearsal room, where I had napped and started
writing and talking to members of the Collegiate Chorale.
The concert went well, but everyone at Bard was more than
slightly disappointed to see that we weren’t even mentioned in the playbill,
while the Brooklyn Youth Choir was listed in full, though they sang a tenth of
the time we did. It didn’t bring up moral to get those half an hour before we
were to go out.
The licorice is
delicious, I still have some left.
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