September 28 - Wallace Harrison (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for September 28th are here: Johann Mattheson; Moon Unit Zappa (2019), Johann Mattheson (2020), Giovanni Punto (2021), Maria Franziska von Trapp (2022), and Florent Schmitt (2023)

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Wallace Harrison (28 September 1895 – 2 December 981) was an American architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have We MET?

The Metropolitan Opera House

   Designed by Wallace Harrison

Is home to Mozart, Berg, and Strauss,

   And stands up to comparison

With other venues we might cite

   Where opera is heard.

And opera fans arrive at night, –

   The taxied and chauffeured.

And in Manhattan's twilight glow,

   The public strolls or marches,

To scan their tickets as they go

   Through Harrison’s Met arches.

 

 

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