So Long, Farewell: Richard Nelson's Regular Singing Is Extraordinary
'Regular Singing.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) At Marian and Barbara Apple's house in Rhinebeck, N.Y., it's time to eat again. As the lights come up, dimly at first, the women are setting the table"laying silverware, carrying out drinks"and soon enough, the men join them. Marian's ex-husband is dying of cancer, and she has taken him in, caring for him in another room of the house. There has been a parade of visitors, frie…