A "lost" Sunday....

 Almost three years to the date that the city closed down---actually four days away. But now is a different time and the city is alive with choices--plays, movies, bus rides through the streets of the different boroughs, book stores, coffee shops---but today I may not experience any of those things. Why? Because physically I am "beat". Yesterday, I had three students---worked exrtremely hard with them, felt very creative and viable, but came homeand could do nothing. Body tired---some stomach pain--rest, then non rest. And today, probably the same. My brain wants to move all over the city---my body is challenging me to stay at home, or atleast not to go too far. Fatigue---and plan for tomorrow where I have at least three, probably four students. Somehow I feel that when I wake up tomorrow my body will follow through on the plan of the day---but today...?

So life continues---mostly two or three sessions with my students, followed by a return to the apartment and "hanging out". Do not see that changing in the next few weeks--it means my best laid plans of seeing plays (there are so many of them now in the city) will probably not happen. I admire my own creativity and my ability to communicate with the kids I am helping, but can I have some other life as well?  Not, it seems at the moment.

Friday past, a day off: in the afternoon a new film from France about young actors training at a perstigious French drama school. Very intense, very dynamic, and a great central performance by a young Polish actress---can't say her name now--but very striking. That evening, returned to Geffen Hall to sit in their lobby and watch on the large TV screen Michael Tilson Thomas leading the orchestra in his own work and the Schubert's ninth. The Schubert is an amazing piece---ideas after ideas come at you with incredible force--just the way the piece is orchestrated is amazing. I think one could say this piece is the final statement of the Classical era---that is the symphonies and works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven---the Schubert makes even a greater statement for me then Beethoven's ninth symphony. No vision left after that. Schumann and Mendelsohn started a new vision---a little more eclectic and in shorter time--but everything breaks off after Schubert. Thomas and the orchestra did a great job---I am really happy I experienced it..

Body still tired---will try to figure out what is possible for the rest of the day.