Recital on a Rainy Night

Bring together an aspiring Miss New York, three sopranos and three pianists and what's the result? A party that few in attendance are likely to forget. Hostess Corinne Tatiana Nordmann threw open the doors of her Upper West Side home last evening to help chase away the gray misery that has gotten some New Yorkers pondering whether they might soon need an ark to get around Manhattan. But all thoughts of the persistent rain were chased away (that is, after Nordmann's own obeisance to the weather, Chopin's Rain Drop Prelude, in D-Flat Major), when the heavenly voices of her performers stepped up to the Steinway, transporting the lucky souls in attendance to places far, far from gray NYC.

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