Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

Monteverdi  Vespers in New York
after a new year's toast to each other, Boyce and I are going to St. Etienne on Lex and 76 to hear these  
ancient Vespers with the quavering sound I forget the name of, same as in Gesualdo ( the Red Monk, I think)
the toast was in pink Zarzetto
this morning I got to swim with the wonderful Torello who speaks during his class, so you aren't bored
and I am l laboring over Alice Paalen Rahon, wow

part 2 of. same:
may I correct and add to this? the sound I so love wasn't until the Magnificat and is like hiccups
or hiccoughs,
correction about labels and addition to what I am laboring over, which is/who is Mina Loy as well as Alice Rahon, only the latter is due next month and the Mina Loy LATER, except that I get enthusiastic about one or the other or both at once, nuts to being organized, at my age, I can't ascend from chaos to neatness
and yesterday I gave away two whole cartloads of books to Housing Works on 89 and 2nd, towed there by my wonderful friend Nathalie Fouyer, who wrote her thesis with me at the CUNY Graduate School on Robert Desnos and Zen
and we had lunch at a grand place  Selena Rosa, on 2nd also, which I hope has enough visitors to remain open for years, unlike so m any of the restaurants closed near us recently, and we had margaritas, one with raspberry and the famous one with pomegranate and crispy tacos with shrimp and Fajitas with seafood and were happy AND now I can walk over my floors without making canals through books, although still on the hunt table all semi-circle are piled up books from whatever I have just finished (big pile of Pascal, of Leonardo, and always art stuff and surrealism and the books I long to read or reread, I and a great pile I am not investigating at the moment, amen

Leonardo....

Since, like thousands of others, I had hoped, going over to London for 2 days, to somehow wangle a ticket for the Leonardo
exhibition at the National Gallery, and hadn't done so, I went with my husband to Leonardo Live, at Cinema 2 on 3rd ave. We had read the articles on the two Virgin of the Rocks paintings, in both the London and the New York Review of Books,.
Wasn't taken by the lovely presenting woman -- so like my least favorite kind of female -- but ah, how intelligent was what Fiona Shaw had to say, about the just found painting of Christ: seductive to the soul , she said. And how intelligent is her face: I had missed her as an actress when she came to New York a little while back, and was glad not to miss her now.
It was funny and not unpleasant to see the Leonardo questionnaire projected on the shot of the National Gallery for about 20 minutes before the film started: some merriment in the audience at the questions, but actually quite nice, and certainly better than the ads usually projected before the film. Much less splashy than the Peter Greenaway version of the Last Supper at the Armory, which I liked less than his Veronese seen in Venice. Good to see so many enthusiasts standing in line outside, very much of all ages.