Initial Design For A Rose, Stain-Glassed Cathedral West Window ... (Or Rudolph's Nose)

I forgot yesterday to add the important upcoming performances in early Februrary, in Washington, D.C. and New York City, of Gluck's opera Armide, performed by Opera Lafayette.

Also, from the New York Times "An Italian City Shaken to Its Cultural Core":

"Roberta Pilolli works for L’Aquila’s music conservatory. After the quake she helped lug the conservatory’s grand pianos from the rubble." ...

L'Aquila, unlike the Nation's Capital of the richest nation on earth, at least has a music conservatory.