Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung and one wing dangling. Someone jostles the stringed spear of a chitarrone, and two primped and padded militaries saunter on stage left. This is the dress rehearsal of Cavalli's Giasone, a baroque opera put on by the Harvard Early Music Society...
This is the dress rehearsal, but so far nothing seems ready. The scene is unclothed, the lights are out, the curtains malcoordinated. And yet as the tensed wrist of the harpsichordist travels across the tuning pegs, as the organ's pitch is finally affixed, as each musician is gathered into place, one senses that the real setting of this opera is here fully assembled...
...hiked over to the central building. A small man popped out from under a truck and began to rummage through a large toolbox. I continued on to the second floor, where I met Sean Sullivan, the transfer station's manager. Wearing shiny black leather shoes, black dress pants, a tight pea green V-neck sweater and a gold chain, he introduced himself and offered me the tour that I had previously arranged...
...Just DON'T turn them around. I knew a lady who in order to keep a dress longer wearing, she used to wear it inside...
Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther told the story of a preternaturally sensitive poet whose impossible love eventually leads to suicide. After it appeared in print young people throughout Europe began imitating Werther's style of dress, talking like him and contemplating Romantic suicide. Many opted to share the fictional character's fate, to embrace his vast yearnings and finally to become tragic heroes in their own eyes. The thought of them always fills me with an immense sadness...