Festive return to live performance this weekend. On Friday, friends invited us to the vast Cecilia Chorus' first performance in two years, at Carnegie Hall no less! Margaret Bonds' charming 1954 "Ballad of the Brown King" was followed by Mozart's "vest-pocket" version of Handel's Messiah. And today it was our neighbors across the street, Manhattan School of Music, the sublimely saucy "Orphée aux enfers" their first live opera since 2019.