All good things come to and end. Everything is in a flux. Prince says, “Sometimes is snows in April. All good things, they say, never last.”
Barring some horrible disaster, the beautiful mosaics at the Times Square station will have a longer duration than most of us here. But having musicians perform in front of them is already being phased out.
It’s a shame, too. A perhaps typical story of bureaucratic non-solution to a non-problem. The good stuff: A beautiful environment in a well-trafficked location with great acoustics. The poor stuff: it’s not far from a ticket and information booth. The speaker system in this glass enclosed booth is not working well. Even without a band playing, communications are garbled and both people with questions and the MTA staff have to articulate precisely and speak loudly to be heard.
Non-solution: no more bands at the mosaics. We’ll see how it plays out.
We performed their yesterday and Marshal came by and took this photo. Beautiful!
Tin Pan at the Mosaics (3/12/09)
I saw you guys playing there tha day. My friend and I watched for a while and love the music. Just wanted to say thanks!