Close your eyes and you get the most spellbinding after-images (like the windmills of your mind).
The music brings to mind less the swirling cinematic rhapsodies for which Mr. Legrand is best known in the United States (like "The Windmills of Your Mind" from "The Thomas Crown Affair") than elevator-music settings of the fairy-tale fantasies of Offenbach.
Political leaders, too, cherish plans for a future liberated by the wind: President Obama speaks of doubling alternative energy by the end of his first term, while Mayor Michael Bloomberg conjures visions of a Manhattan whose skyscrapers bristle with turbines, like the windmills that once dominated the skyline of Dutch New Amsterdam.
Without it utilities lose electrons delivered to big cities from far-flung generation sources like the windmills Brazil is building in its northeastern provinces and the Three Gorges Dam in China, 600 miles west of Shanghai on the Yangtze River.
David Landes's grand backward look at the world explains its development not just through concepts like property rights and industrial innovation, but also through inventions like the plough, the windmill and eyeglasses.
A few blocks south, in a building strikingly shaped like its Dutch muse, the WindMill (586 Ocean Boulevard, 732-229-9863) offers footlongs with a roster of toppings you spoon on yourself, including a New York-style heated sauerkraut that the counterman yanks from the griddle.
"There'd been practically no urban experience like it," Mr. Clark said of the windmill hookup, adding that the utility was afraid of the precedent.
In the other sessions, Haitink continues to try to get the windmill-like Cser to obey the maxim "less is more"; he attempts, successfully, to make Cesa-Goje's hands communicate more of the music, and he is impressed with Trafton's commitment, even if the American describes being up there on the podium with Haitink as being "like someone's pulled your pants down".
