http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1380 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1380#comments Thu, 01 May 2003 03:29:42 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1380 On December 14, 1894 Edward MacDowell performed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Anton Seidl. Although it had been first performed in Boston some five years before, the concerto had not previously been performed here. After all, before]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1380/feed 0 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633#comments Mon, 22 Mar 1999 05:29:56 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1633 Salvador Dalí came to New York for the first time in 1934. In a symptom of the Civil War to come, the provincial government of Catalonia had unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The subsequent street fighting terrified him and he would not return to Spain for many years. He was Catalonian]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1633/feed 0