Aside from a carousel with an aquatic theme recalling the original locale of the New York Aquarium, the city plans to install ornamental gardens, a fountain and new lighting.
"It really is this culture of specialness," he says, warming to his theme, recalling his friend River Phoenix and the "sense of fraudulence" River felt.
This is Glass's most formidable score, with minimalist processes acquiring symphonic heft: the "Protest" scene of Act II is driven by a grandly plunging, minor-mode theme, recalling the opening of Mahler's First Symphony.
It is in some respects a familiar theme, recalling those artists for whom rampant acquisition and attentive ownership of ancient or novel curios were essential to the making of their own work.
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Only the novels of William Faulkner, in their range and depth and in their powerful assault on the basic tragic themes, recall unmistakably the values of the tragic tradition.
The subjects of the paintings were ritual hunting scenes or obscure occult imagery, both themes recalling those of Paleolithic cave paintings.
On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, sounded similar themes, recalling his humble roots as he tried to persuade voters that he understood their "struggle".
Artists were turning from the Baroque and Rococo styles to simpler and more austere themes recalling Greek and Roman art and emphasizing observation and reason, said Kathryn Galitz, an art historian at the Met.
The work is filled with Eastern Orthodox mysticism and melodramatic themes, recalling the mythic Russia of Baba Yaga, the Golden Cockerel and the Tatar hordes -- the Russia conjured by Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
