The New York Philharmonic performed a free concert in Prospect Park's Long Meadow Ball fields where sheep once grazed.
The evenings program included
Tchaikovsky, Polonaise from "Eugene Onegin"
Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
Prokofiev, Selections from "Romeo and Juliet"
Each selection had the theme of love and violent death and the program ended on a similar note with colorful red, white, some green or almost blue fireworks projected in multiply patterns simulating the sound of gun shots in their assent to the heavens above.
The concert used a state-of-the-art sound system with a wireless broadcast network and 24 15-foot speaker towers that brought clarity and beauty to the professionally executed music heard by thousands of lounging spectators.
The sound quality was extraordinary!
Of course there was a reason for The New York Philharmonic' selection of love and violent vibrant death onto the serenity of domestic/environmentally rich Brooklyn park bliss but what inspired this program was not disclosed.
I sat in the midst of my YogaSole school friends
happy that in Brooklyn partying with yoga students and teachers is not an unusual event. At YogaSole there is an inclusion without rancor, a generosity that precludes the intellectual substance of the concert's theme.
We are friends, not lovers, not violent but Yogis getting together for a night in the park where trees are again the winners. The shade and lower temperatures they afford reaffirmed our commitment to think green while we cherish the extensive nature that exists in our backyards as much as we cherish the production of excellence in art; even in these violent times when War hovers over us.
It sure beats the sound of helicopters or jets or even subways underground that shake rattle and roll throughout the Borough.
Thank you to all the many sponsors for making this night possible and thank you YogaSole for making this evening another special moment to remember.
Linda Zises
criticalwomen.net
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