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A Marvelous Order is an opera by Judd Greenstein to a libretto by Tracy K. Smith about New York urban activist Jane Jacobs and urban planner Robert Moses.The work was conceived by three artists—Greenstein, Smith and director Joshua Frankel, [1] who also created animation that is projected throughout the opera.
Jacobs begins the work with the blunt statement that: "This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." She describes a trip to Boston's North End neighborhood in 1959, finding it friendly, safe, vibrant and healthy, and contrasting her experience against her conversations with elite planners and financiers in the area, who lament it as a "terrible slum" in need of renewal.
A Marvelous Order is an opera about the battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs [14] over the fate of New York City, conceived by Frankel, composer Judd Greenstein and poet Tracy K. Smith. [15] [16] The opera is framed, implicitly, as a love triangle in which Moses and Jacobs vie for the affections of New York City. [17]
May 2—The late Jane Jacobs left a lasting impression on the architecture and urban-planning industries, and it's time to celebrate her legacy where it all started: her hometown of Scranton. The ...
Jane Isabel Jacobs [1] OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. [2]
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The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
The dance division was established in 1951. ... Jane Adams (Group 18, 1989) [1] ... Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Playwrights 2012, 2013)