Saturday morning...

the beginning of a long day. Already have heard on you tube the final scene from Yeoman of the Guard and Opening Doors. Sondheim and Sullivan---quite a group! Now what? All the music in the world...all the classical music that I have wanted to check out for a while, but could not because my dvd player was broken, is at my fingertips. But so what? I am still here in one place. Something artificial about that. In the hospitals, dedicated people risking their lives---in the apartments, trying to cope.
 So what is the plan? I would like to hear at least the beginning of the broadcast of Orfeo this afternoon on the Metropolitan Opera playbacks. The music has always interested me, but I have never really had  chance to listen carefully to it. After that---have to get out---to where---is it too risky to try to get to Brooklyn? Not sure. Can go to the open space that the city has provided on Park Avenue between 34th and 28th street. I wonder if it will be more populated then last Friday. But must go, or be, somewhere.
  Last night read all of Auster's short novel The Locked Room. Really a compelling and remarkable work. A writer leading a "normal" if somewhat isolated life in NYC (that is how all of Auster's heroes seem to begin)  is asked by the wife of his former best friend to catalogue the best friend's writing. This guy, named Fanshawe, has simply disappeared, leaving his wife and infant behind.
Thus begins the narrator's adventure, as he slowly takes over, or becomes obsessed with the writing and identity of Fanshawe. Lots of ideas about doubling, or one personalty being absorbed into another. Could not put it down, even if I was getting tired towards the end. It was intense.
  Is that all? Well, for now, yes--maybe some memories tomorrow---since yesterday's post I have started a post on the Facebook page for growing up in the Bronx, 40's, 50's, 60's. The post, which was about the difference between a trip to Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees and a trip to the Polo Grounds to watch the Giants got about 8 replies. Very good. I added a postscript this morning, so we will see how that goes. Anyway, should report tomorrow.