Can it be that in mid-July we are already thinking about the last days of summer? Well, La Cieca is, especially since she’s just found out that Robert Wilson‘s Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation will offer the unlikely duo of Rufus Wainwright and Jessye Norman in a concert entitled “Last Song of Summer” on August 30.

According to Fashion Week Daily, the grande dame/ex-tweaker pairup promises to be “a noted departure from the center’s always highly-anticipated 15th-annual Watermill summer benefit on July 26… This year’s gala will feature the work of German artist Jonathan Meese, who … will transform the venue’s pure design into an ‘ever changing assemblage of cult, kitsch and historical relics’.”

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