Initiatives such as these are, after all, textbook examples of festivals looking to harvest fields they themselves have sown.
To build roads and harvest fields, Bhutan imports up to 100,000 migrant workers from India's poorest northern states.
Perhaps the most notorious guest worker program in recent American history involved the "braceros" who arrived to help harvest fields during World War II.
Harvest fields were scarred with shallow trenches that served as mass graves, and the efforts to exhume and identify and repatriate these hastily buried bodies would take years.
Golden harvest fields, couples strolling along beaches enveloped in the odd blue light of the midnight sun, women in deck chairs in long, white cotton dresses, big healthy nudes, thatched houses with spick-and-span rooms.
The Bolshoi's sets, designed by Boris Messerer in a charmingly Modernist manner just right for Shostakovich's score, are superior in color, texture and detail: their harvest fields and garden hedges give us a more intense sense of a world.
