Baldwin tells the story as a first person narrator, so we tend to identify the main character with the author of the story. But that would be a mistake. David, is not James Baldwin, not a hero or a victim and not able to tell the truth. It is for us to discover that David is, in modern parlance, a d*ck, incapable of caring about the people he hurts, and that he will probably continue to be a d*ck for as long as he lives.

In February, 2021 Naxos Records released a recording of works by Ottorino Respighi as performed by the Chamber Orchestra of New York, which includes the first printed edition of the composer’s Second Violin Concerto “all’Antica.” This was just the latest installment of the Music Director, Salvatore Di Vittorio’s decade long project reproposition of the lesser known works of the great early 20th Century composer in a new way for new listeners.