How Can We Hang On To A Dream/Tim Hardin/

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I've  seen something magical today, just returned home, it's 11pm and instead going to sleep , I'm writing this post. 2 weeks ago quite unexpectedly our theatres were allowed to open, a kind of  experiment. The same day I bought a ticket for 'Romeo and Juliet' ,Sergei Prokofiev's ballet..It's not a new performance , I saw it 5 or 6 years ago..Here is the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZwi1sPYgs

David Cassidy and ballet.Yes, there is a connection .For the last 10 years I used to go for a ballet performance to our Grand Theatre (one of the biggest in Europe) at least twice a year, I'm a huge ballet fan. I had a ticket for a new premiere last March, but, you know. Tonight..it was strange , only 50% of audience and everyone in a mask..but to listen to that wonderful music live and to watch our National Polish Ballet's  dancers again..they were just fantastic, even better than before , they were so happy to perform again..While driving home I was thinking about another night ..

I was at the same Grand Theatre on November21st 2017..That performance was rather unusual, at first I wasn't very convinced, 3 parts without obvious connection , but it was another unforgettable night( you should watch the trailer to the end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVkjlyJZg9w

At the time I used my phone as ..just a phone. I wasn't on any social media, I switched it off before the performance and switched it on the next morning while I was on a train going home. ( I spend that night at my daughter's flat )..There was a man (quite handsome ) who sat in front of me..and was staring at me..very hard..So I took off my phone to check the news..'.a former teen idol..Keith Partridge..David Cassidy..died'..I looked at the man , he wanted to say something ,but I just rised my hand and read once again..but it was the same..'David Cassidy died'..I don't know how I got home that day..I was in shock. Of course I knew that David Cassidy was in a hospital , but I was certain everything would be fine, he would undergo an operation or something..The next 4 or 5 weeks I spent thinking why I was so sad because of his passing..I didn't follow his career for many years, I didn't see him in concert, never..so why? I read fans' tributes, there were so many of them and tribute videos, and there was one video with a beautiful, sad song which I'd never heard before.., maybe that was the answer.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpqb4x6zHoA

And the man from the train..He was an Englishman who wanted to know if he was going in the right direction... Yes, he was..

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