"We'll still be here, and I think the Aon executives who normally come will be here, but of course everything will be so much more somber," said Magda Krance, a spokeswoman for the opera company.
This was made clear not so much by the snug suits as by the somber long coats that looked suitable for a stroll through Gorky Park.
Her designs express a sensibility that is "on the darker side," she acknowledged, their somber colors, cascading lapels and droopy shapes suggesting nothing so much as a midnight romp with Morticia Addams.
Many of the parties that I attended last year have been scrapped and replaced with more low key affairs – not because they cost so much money but just because they aren't appropriate in such a somber atmosphere.
The mood is somber yet celebratory that Bertier was able to accomplish so much in his short life.
"We have so much to be thankful for," said Kathleen Melia as she watched a column of somber police officers pass by.
"My dad had so much to say and so little time to say it," she added in a more somber tone.
The ride home was so much worse than the ride there, it seemed to take forever, and the mood was somber.
They don't create characters so much as free-floating personalities, although Luther Creek, the evening's great find, affectingly gives the show a more somber emotional dimension as the conflicted, Vietnam-bound Claude.
On a day when work meant so much less than family and human companionship, when the very constructs of what it meant to live in New York came under question, New Yorkers spent much of their time in somber and heartfelt reflection.
