Concert at the Cloisters

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | The Queen's Pawn, The Writing Life

I love going to the Cloisters…a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses a large part of the museum’s medieval collection. It is a journey to get there…at least half an hour by subway from the Upper West Side, but the trip is worth it. The collection is beautiful.

This Sunday I went uptown to Ft Tryon and the Cloisters not just to view the art but to hear a concert by the Boston Camerata on the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdelene. Though Eleanor is not particularly religious ( in my novels, at least) Princess Alais iv VERY religious, and particularly devoted to the Holy Mother, or the Virgin Mary. So throughout this concert I thought of Alais, and of how much she would have enjoyed it. I know I did.