The View from the Quai Voltair

Jeez, in my dismissiveness I forgot Haendel, whose organ concerti Kristen and I only too infrequently (we forget) play together. The drawback to Haendel and Bach for Kristen, and for me, is the dull, monodic simplicity of the secondo, bass part, over which I as primo have all the other parts. You would think I would like that, but I don't.

Marcus, a friend of forty years, took me to Sunday dinner at the new Vietnamese restaurant on 2nd Avenue. The food was superb, simple, various; the service was done by an intelligent, attentive, strong and beautiful young man with huge diamonds in his earlobes.