the ConstellationCenter is built in Cambridge
Cambridge —If and when the ConstellationCenter is built in Cambridge, it will be the largest and most ambitious performance space ever realized in America, its boosters say. If all goes as planned, it will attract dancers, symphonies and theater companies. Second-run films will be screened to alternately massive and cozy, self-selecting audiences. An opera space doubles as an electric rock concert hall; choirs and acoustic jazz could share the same hall, if not on the same bill, on the same evening. ConstellationCenter’s multifunctionality models itself after the Barbican Center in London and La Cite de la Musique, in Paris.
Local art figures won’t comment on ConstellationCenter at all: the project is so invisible they’re nervous about saying the wrong thing. MIT List Art Center Director Jane Farver declined to comment, though she recommended a colleague who would be more helpful. List’s assistant director, David Freilach, politely pleaded ignorance with regard to ConstellationCenter. Over at the American Repertory Theater, perhaps Cambridge’s best, hippest performing arts hall, a representative said not to bother with the directors: they wouldn’t know much. ConstellationCenter President Glenn KnicKrehm is a member of ART’s board.
A grand opening — sort of
The June 24 opening of a public art installation at the ConstellationCenter site marked the first visible progress toward the eventual realization of the multipurpose space. Six large-scale works by New Englanders, which can be loosely described as sculptures, now stand atop a rubble of granite and will remain there for another six to eight months, until the next round of artists takes over. The current installation has little to do with the many faces of ConstellationCenter, which as of yet will not make room for visual art.
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