My roommate worked at Mr. Henry’s, no wait, he just drank at Mr. Henry’s. Roberta Flack sang there in the late 60s.
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@geoffkait I heard her free concert on the mall in 1971 when I was at GWU. Did you ever go to the Red Lion pub? There was also a pizza place we frequented (if you can call anything they served in DC real pizza - I'm from NJ) but I can't recall the name. It began with an N I think. And a great deli down by Watergate. Also heard Neil Young at a club in Georgetown. Someplace with a horse in it's name. And then there was the all-night bakery, Kumpits, when we got the munchies late at night. |
I don’t recall the name of the Pizza place or the Red Lion. But it was the seventies. What can I tell ya? I also lived a couple blocks down from the Biograph theater on Pennsylvania Ave. on Washington Circle, the one with the statue of some dude on a horse. You’re from Jersey? I’m from Jersey. I was born in NJ. |
I generally tend not to have much interest in unorthodox arrangements of familiar music, but I find the following arrangement for cello and piano of Puccini's famous aria "O Mio Babbino Caro," from his opera
"Gianni Schicchi," to be quite beautiful. The talented young performers are pianist Marnie Laird and cellist Cicely Parnas. Cicely created the arrangement. Some may recognize the music from the wonderful 1985 film "A Room with a View," in which the aria was sung by the great Kiri Te Kanawa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZ2UUlQvbc Regards, -- Al |
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