Jefferson Square was a multi-million dollar culture center...but
there was nothing at all cultural about some of the things that
happened there during its grand opening in the Sixties. At the
Repertory Theater, a play called Confessional was in rehearsal.
Some called it dramatic literature. Others considered it a
tasteless exploitation of the playwright's former marriage to
America's queen of sex. In the expensive interior of Symphony Hall,
the brilliant and erratic conductor of the Jefferson Square
Symphony Orchestra was working feverishly on a new concerto while
his private life was rushing toward its own scandalous crescendo.
In the board room, the dream of the state's governor for a
presidential nomination was interrupted by the discovery that
Jefferson Square was making this rich man richer. And in the
executive offices, where architects' drawings were still being
argued over, Jefferson Square's recently hired cultural director
was being tempted to destroy what he had been employed to hold
together. Jefferson Square provides a fascinating glimpse of life
behind the scenes in the midst of the creation of a new urban
cultural epicenter, a symbol of the gentrification forcing out
longtime neighborhood inhabitants. From the glitz and the glamor of
Jefferson Square proper, to the hardships faced by residents of the
condemned projects in the area, Gerson brings microcosms of the
Sixties to Technicolor life.
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