Don’t you love street corner opera? Apparently, some Prospect Heights residents are especially feeling it. Here, from Brooklynian, is the account:
is anyone familiar with the opera man on st. mark’s near the corner of washington? he chooses to perform (practice) every afternoon and subjects the block to off-key notes and stains the neighborhood. i’m always down to support the arts and would love to hear Tosca or Carmen anytime – this just doesn’t even come close. this is closer to fingernails on a chalkboard. any suggestions on how to kindly subdue the prospect pavarotti?
There is also this subsequent detail:
Today I was gifted with a performance from about 7 to 9:30. He went for a good hour and then it was one and off for a good half. Sometimes it’s earlier in the afternoon and occasionally I get a repeat performance at night. Mockingbirds would be soothing compared to to this.
Eh, maybe not so much on the mockingbirds.
1 response so far ↓
1 brad // May 31, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Look–he’s a musician, and musicians need to practice. If he was a student, I’m sure he could practice at his school, and if he was in a smaller city, he could probably use some kind of public practice room. But in NY, that’s not really an option. I really don’t think that those stupid comments on Brooklynian are very funny, and I wish people would be a little more understanding. I practice my saxophone and clarinet at my apartment all the time, and I’m sure some people would prefer I didn’t, but I’d prefer my neighbors didn’t have loud parties on their balconies until 2AM…which is worse? And as far as him being ‘off-key’ and sounding like ‘fingernails on a chalkboard’, you need to practice things that you’re not very good at in order to get better at them…you wouldn’t want to just run through the things that you already sound great on, right? Maybe if they kept listening, they would hear some improvement…or maybe they don’t know what to listen for anyway.