Weekend Update:
Winter Outings
This morning, I visited the Cathedral of St John the Divine for the first time, in the company of Sore Afraid blogger Eric Patton. We walked around and took a lot of pictures. Most of my pictures aren’t very good, sadly, and quite a few are dismally blurred, given the low light and my unsteady hand. It was a very pleasant outing, though, and I’d be perfectly happy to stay home tonight. But I’ve got tickets for Orpheus at Carnegie Hall.
More anon…
I have yet to see the glories of the newly restored interior of St John’s. I feel fortunate to have lived in the era of the cathedral’s existence wherein I could experience it in its mothballed state – all sooty and broodingly gloomy; its newly revitalized state, when building started afresh and stonemasons clambered over the portals and south tower, carving blocks no one ever thought would be relieved from their unfinished state into modern intricacies that harkened back to the styles of the Dark Ages through the high Middle Ages; and finally to its post-fire state, when the interior must gleam as Notre Dame and Chartres once did when still abuilding or just completed. A feat of architectural ledgerdermain and reinvention only possible in New York.