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No Harry. The word isn't education but
advertisement. And its not the kids. They have
changed. It is the parents and the older folks as well as the
ill-educated new rich who are still bug idles (Beatles) now approaching
sixty. There is a great hope but when all you get is
commercial advertising for garbage then what you have is a garbage
mind. As for the dirty old man. Yes I have a
lovely wife who is a wonderful writer, composer and teacher.
Ray
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:49
PM
Subject: Re: Even nationalised circuses!
(Re: Loss of the middle class)
Ray,
You are a dirty old man!
Of
course, I'm a lot older and dirtier than you are.
But to males of any
age there is nothing better than seeing a beautiful women - unless it's
conversing with an intelligent one.
The only way to save the arts is by
increasing the number of people who appreciate them. But, that seems unlikely
at the moment (note Arthur's Immigration post). When a general appreciation is
lacking, the Arts turn to the rich and powerful. Then perhaps to equally rich
and powerful governments who throw a pittance or two toward the starving
artists.
But the only way for the arts to flourish in a free society is
by attracting a large following. And the only way for that following to
materialize is by education. Initially in the schools, later by peer
group and knowledgeable adults.
As it is, the kids are trapped into a
mindless addiction by rhythmic noise and "presentation". There is more
communication in the scat singing of Ella and Sarah than in the tuneless noise
that serves as music for the deprived
generation.
Harry
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Ray
wrote:
Hi Mike,
I would never cross a
Canadian on this. I was told at the audition
that
the two people who started the troupe were Russian. Is
that incorrect?
There also were a lot of Russian and Ukranian performers
auditioning at the
time. And a very large percentage of
the Big Apple Circus performers came
from the old Soviet System as
well. Although there was goodly number
from
Mexico, and the contortionists are trained in the State System
in
China. It seemed indicative of what China is doing
to exist in this
world. If I see one more
goose stepping military tape from China and
North Korea again I will
vomit. It reminds me of the fat Russian
women
propaganda tape they used to show before the Soviet System
changed. Now I
go to parties with the most beautiful
women you could imagine with some
wearing costumes that show that they
were not raised with the kind of guilt
that we in the West are accustomed
to.
All that aside, Montreal and Canada deserves credit for
supporting and
nurturing such a wonderful world class
troupe. We let Martha Graham's
company die here when
she was trying to get some kind of national
designation for this major
American contribution to world dance. It has
been
heartbreaking to see Graham's body of work as well as the
educational
system slowly disappear. Well some Capitalist had
a bargain on the school
and built a new building on the site.
The Muse Tree in the garden was cut
down. In the end the world will
forget him and remember that we didn't
care. The
Canadians are way ahead of us on so much of this. Only
in
NYCity is America represented well with Lincoln Center and the
cultural
jewels. NY has so many museums that a mayor
not long ago, let two major
ones leave the city. Of
course one was the Heye Foundation Museum of the
American
Indian. It went to Washington and became the National
Museum of
the American Indian at the Smithsonian.
Oh yes, the
middle class. Well, that article is old news for all but
the
politicians. It was beginning to change in the
decade of the 1990s but it
never quite got there. The
middle class is docile and frightened. It
will take a lot
more before they become radicalized enough to do anything
about
it. But when they do, remember the anger at 9/11.
There is a
latent streak of violence in America that I don't believe most
people
understand. It is not smart to poke a sleaping
Jaguar.
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael
Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ray Evans Harrell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Futurework@Scribe. Uwaterloo.
Ca
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 25,
2002 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: Even nationalised circuses! (Re: Loss of the
middle class)
>
> A minor correction...in fact but not
in theory...Le Cirque began, I
believe,
> with some grant funds
from the Canadian Government to a group of Quebecois
> street
performers.
>
> MG
>
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Ray Evans
> Harrell
> Sent: February 25, 2002 4:24 PM
>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Keith Hudson
> Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Even nationalised
circuses! (Re: Loss of the middle class)
>
>
> > >
Keith
> > Although at the opposite ends of the political spectrum
in name until
> > recently, both Argentina and Soviet Russia had
the distinction of having
> > nationalised circuses!
>
>
>
>
> Yes that is the reason you have the Cirque du
Soleil. They were trained
in
> the state system of the
old Soviet Union. They know an empty field when
> they see
one and they have the skills to develop and that is what the
>
difference is. The East trained people and the West
consumed. Now
> there is a problem for the
West. They don't know how to do and they will
> not have
the money to consume so we will find that the Cold War is
still
on
> and they won it by declaring defeat and taking over our
own systems.
>
> Brilliant! (with a cynical
snear)
>
> Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
> The
Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
>
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