THE MAGAZINE

From London with Love: A Night with Vivaldi
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From London with Love: A Night with Vivaldi

A night at St James’ Church turns into an unexpected meditation on memory, music, and the pull of live performance. In this TWoA letter, Maya listens to Beethoven and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by candlelight—and finds herself tracing the moments that stay with us long after the final note.

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From New York with Love: The Frick Collection
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From New York with Love: The Frick Collection

With the Frick’s 2025 reopening, a visit to the Upper East Side feels less like a museum trip and more like slipping into a remembered century—emerald rooms, gold-leaf frames, and women whose painted gazes echo across time. Olivia writes from New York about art, weather, and the selves we meet in between.

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From London with Love: A Night at the Moulin Rouge
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From London with Love: A Night at the Moulin Rouge

Soho isn’t just a postcode—it’s the pulse of London after dark. In this glitter-soaked TWoA City Letter, follow Maya into the heart of the West End for a night at Moulin Rouge: neon windmills, velvet decadence, and the kind of London chaos where theatre, food, and nightlife blur into one unforgettable story. If you want to know London the way Londoners do, start here.

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From New York with Love: The New York Philharmonic
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From New York with Love: The New York Philharmonic

What does a night with the New York Philharmonic feel like? In this luminous TWoA City Letter, follow Olivia up Ninth Avenue into a transformed David Geffen Hall, where Gustavo Dudamel leads Varèse, Ravel, and Gershwin on a voyage that turns New York into something mythic. A love letter to the Philharmonic, to spring, and to the magic of hearing a city through its orchestra.

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From Berlin with Love: The Philharmonie Berlin
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From Berlin with Love: The Philharmonie Berlin

Step into a rain-slick Berlin night and follow Christina Ezrahi into the glowing, golden shell of the Philharmonie, where pianist Mao Fujita turns a dark February evening into pure electricity. From the suspense of his first Chopin note to the thunder of Beethoven’s Appassionata, this City Letter captures Berlin’s eclectic audience, the hall’s legendary acoustics, and the quiet magic of a performer who’d rather play than bask in applause. A warm, luminous escape into one of Europe’s most unforgettable concert nights.

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