This work consists of an illustrated reading of Hart Crane’s "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge" followed by a slide choreography of composer Dinu Ghezzo’s EYES OF CASSANDRA. In "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge," the "I" or persona, an alter ego of Hart Crane, portrays himself as a commentator on the human condition and an ardent visionary of the future. As such, Crane was one of the Cassandras of his age, a failed savant who lived amidst the excesses of the Twenties, culminating in the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, and died a suicide. Dinu Ghezzo, in his EYES OF CASSANDRA, provides rare glimpses of Trojan princess Cassandra in her career as a visionary before she was taken prisoner by the conquering Greeks and foully murdered. As no portrait of her has come down to us, I use depictions of Crane emblematically to represent her.
