Bi-polar is a popular word evoked in reference to the subject. We all know about Depression. I knew a woman once who said she never got depressed. I found that hard to believe although she was someone whom I knew who speak the truth. Many of us, however, get depressed and don’t even know we are depressed. Instead we display its variety of symptoms, unaware of the root of them. Others are aware but crushed by it. Lorna Graev’s Fountain House campaigns have opened a whole new book of information, insights and life-learning for many New Yorkers. I have no doubt that it is a trend that will emerging across this country.
Last night they were celebrating the 30th birthday of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. They honored songwriters Frank Loesser and Jule Styne, and if you don’t think you know their work, you’ve heard it so many times you probably even know a lot of the words and the music.
Among the performers on the program were Nick Adams, Laura Benanti, Stephanie J. Block, Liz Callaway, Will Chase, Megan Hilty, Marilyn Maye, Rob McClure, Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Max von Essen, Anthony Warlow and Betsy Wolfe. After the concert there was a black tie dinner dance at the Plaza. We’ll have a full report later this week.
At the same hour, over at the Dance Times Square Ballroom on West 44th Street, they were celebrating the 114th anniversary of the great Duke Ellington.
I’m not a shopper, although I do go to Bergdorf’s cosmetic and skincare department on the subterranean floor about every six or seven months to buy a jar of moisturizer that someone turned me onto several years ago. But Bergdorf’s is the department store for the very uppah-uppah ladies and gents and those who would be.
I am, as regular NYSD readers know, a big fan of the Bergdorf windows. They are without peer in the great big world of retail in New York: always intriguing, beautiful, highly imaginative, glamorous, wild, crazy, gorgeous sights.
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