It is a part of the largest Tiffany installation in the world. It lives in the Chicago Cultural Center, at the corner of Washington and Michigan. The CCC used to be the Chicago Public Library, until they built a bigger, fancier one (there are gargoyles on the new one). The Tiffany room is officially known as the Preston Bradley Hall, and it is now mainly used for concerts. Yesterday's musicians were Rebecca Wascoe, vocalist, and Jeffrey Peterson, piano. I have never heard anyone sing with as much feeling and presence as this woman did yesterday. She was part queen, part madam, part teenage girl belting out Wagner's "Schmerzen" ("Anguish") in perfect despair.
Sun, each evening you weep
Your pretty eyes red,
When, bathing in the mirror of the sea
You are seized by early death.
My God, I nearly wept.
After the concert, I dazedly wandered over to Millenium Park for lunch, then walked along the harbor of the Lake. It was a wonderfully gloomy sky, and the boats at the yacht club looked as though they were going to rebel at any moment.
I ended my walk in Lurie Park. It was built as a part of the "city in the park" plan that very clever and forward thinking architects and landscape architects devised in this city nearly a century ago. It felt strange to be moseying about a little prairie garden under the watchful eyes of the city.
Wow what a beautiful picture of the flowers :)
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