Posted on 29/11/03
Wrestling with a house of music
Opera is ethereal, but pouring the foundations of an opera house also produces a certain music. For example, there is the squelch-squelch of my rubber boots as they wade through the muddy remnants of a burst water main that flooded the site with five feet of water on the evening of Nov. 14 (no doubt an impressive orchestral tutti there). And now there's the whoosh of four tons of wet concrete slipping out of a giant bucket into the 8-by-8-foot hole of a foundation footing.
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