03/30/2009 12:25 ПП | News |
NEW YORK (AP) F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about it. Simon and Garfunkel sang about it. Now the Queensboro Bridge is turning 100.
Monday is the 100th anniversary of first day that cars crossed the 3,724-foot bridge between Queens and Manhattan.
Fitzgerald praised the view from the bridge in “The Great Gatsby” and Paul Simon wrote about it in “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”.
The steel and stone bridge was designed by architect Henry Hornbostel.
Photo/Sonia Rincon
03/04/2009 1:29 ПП | Articles |
Pop music loves its summer kisses, bemoans its winter tears and leaves the folkies to wax autumnal. The offshoot? Not too many pop songs about spring spring to mind. Sure, Igor Stravinsky once gave you “Rites of Spring,” and of course “Springtime for Hitler” pretty much owns the season. But not a whole lot of people have followed the Ballet Russes and the cast of “The Producers” up the primrose path.
Undaunted, we decided to search high and low for every song we could find that captures the sense of renewal offered by the second season and can be pinpointed definitively between the months of March and June. Читать далее »