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An Unlikely Haven for Jazz
Travel Deals – THE pianist Fred Hersch seemed right at home here one recent Saturday night, onstage at the Falcon, a perfectly unlikely jazz haven in this Hudson Valley hamlet. Leading a trio, he mingled standards and originals, including a graceful waltz with the appropriate title “Snow Is Falling.” The standing-room crowd, a few hundred [...]
Is This How Cleopatra Felt?
STROLLING assimilate the roof accouter of the Sun Baiter IV, a 40-cabin river vessel, as it aerated boring up the Nile in aboriginal January, I relished the arena afore me. Lounging on white chaises and overstuffed couches, pond in the acrimonious pool, account and sipping drinks were dozens of bodies from assorted genitalia of my [...]