Music for Airports

The fallout from canceling the Terminal 5 exhibition continues. Brian Eno, whose “Music for Airports” was recently rereleased, was set to do a “lecture-demonstration” at the historic terminal apparently in connection with the exhibit. Not anymore:

On Monday the musician Brian Eno visited Terminal 5 of Kennedy Airport, the curvilinear 1962 futuristic building designed by Eero Saarinen for T.W.A. that has been closed since 2001. An art exhibition of installations designed for the space had just opened there, and Mr. Eno, whose 1979 ambient album “Music for Airports” was reissued this week, was preparing a lecture-demonstration.

He was in New York for appearances that included a dialogue with the filmmaker Todd Haynes last night as part of the Music and Media series at the Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Eno’s lecture at Terminal 5 was moved when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shut down the entire art exhibition after a opening-night party damaged the building.

So some jabronis ruined our chances to actually hear “Music for Airports” in an airport. Agh! Buffoons! (The Times article says that he was testing some kind of demonstration at the space, but perhaps that was before the exhibit was shut down?)