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(rshsdepot) Unnamed JCRR Station makes the Times
- Subject: (rshsdepot) Unnamed JCRR Station makes the Times
- From: Ivan Berger <OldMaven_@_comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:46:23 -0400
From last Sunday's New York Times Magazine--Any idea what station they're
discussing?:
, The unlikely story of a self-mythologizing pet-care mogul, an
orchestra on the verge of collapse and 30 of the world's most
valuable stringed instruments.
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/magazine/03NJSYMPHONY.html
Medici of the Meadowlands
New York Times Magazine
August 3, 2003
By MARK LEVINE
The tangled relationship of art, illusion and the marketplace being
what it is -- an ongoing melodrama, set to the strains of keening
violins -- it so happened that 250 tuxedoed, gowned and bejeweled
members of the patronage class showed up for an Italianate palace
ball one night this spring at a defunct train station in a Jersey
City marsh. Guests were met at the gate by a young man in a pleated
skirt, pointy black slippers and a frilly blouse under a gold
brocaded vest, who bowed theatrically and said, "Buona notte, signori
e signore." The title of the ball was Palazzo di Cremona, and the
domed terminal of the Central Railroad of New Jersey was done up for
the evening with garlands of citrus leaves and blood oranges. Three
former governors of New Jersey were present, along with Paolo Bodini,
mayor of Cremona, Italy, a 2,300-year-old town north of Milan.
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Ivan Berger
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