Sounds and images

Wednesday - Handel's Messiah in the Sacred Heart Chapel of the Holy Spirit performed by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Cathedral of Saint Joseph Schola Cantorum. Awesome! The singing was wonderful and the orchestral accompaniment appropriate for this great work. Before the performance we were "treated" to a lecture on the mosaic by the University President. Watch a slideshow...

Thursday to New York to see the Bauhaus exhibition at the MoMA

Wonderful! Only trouble was, I reached "saturation" from examining and reading and digesting before I had looked at all the pieces. I was particularly interested in the examples from the first course (I hadn't realized that Bauhaus was a "real" school/university as well as a school/style) where students learned theories of colour and form. I was a little surprised that there was not more furniture -- another misconception from my incomplete knowledge. No photography allowed, and the exhibition catalog was $75 (I refrained from buying). ADDITION: 12/27/09, New York Times review of a new book on the Bauhaus.

We also walked quickly through the Tim Burton exhibit -- very crowded and lots of lively drawings, sculptures and videos, before the calming experience of Monet's waterlilies.

And, what would Christmas in New York be without seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree?

Or, what would Christmas

in Fairfield be without seeing the GE Christmas tree?