“It’s nearly summer, and the great chandelier that has hung in the Academy of Music for a century and a half is going on a nice, long trip – a cure, really – to the south of France.” The point of its restoration “is to get the chandelier as close as possible to its original appearance without reinstalling the 240 gas jets that were its original source of light. It is part of a larger, $1.2 million project to relight the Academy’s ornate architectural details, such as the Mozart medallion over the stage and the mural in the dome.”