Rock stars and comedians perform on the street, the Philharmonie is playing in the park: after the corona coma, the metropolis is just blossoming. Our author was out and about in town.
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“As Long as the Sun Lasts” – that’s what Alex Da Corte calls his sculpture, inspired by Sesame Street and Alexander Calnder’s Mobiles. To be seen as part of the “Met’s 2021 Roof Garden Commission” on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
Photo: Tomothy A. Clary (AFP)
People stand with bowed heads under the trees. A couple stopped kissing. Waves of metallic sound fill the park. A walker stops. Then the music breaks off, silence. As if a bell broke.
Every even hour in the cherry avenue of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the composition “Loved” by Michael Gordon, which the virtuoso percussionist David Cossin recorded on seven xylophones, can be heard. It is dedicated to those people who died during the pandemic. Thanks to online reservations, the entrance to the park is timed so that you don’t get too close. New York carefully begins to lick its wounds and look ahead.
