Re: [h-cost] Modern interpretations of period plays/opera/ballet

2005-11-26 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 12:17 26/11/2005, you wrote: The non-existent wall that prevents otherwise intelligent people from enjoying these delights of Opera and Shakespeare is sewn, here in America anyway, by the anti-intellectual brigade. Those usually sports-soaked numb-nuts that seem to be kewl in school and

Re: [h-cost] Modern interpretations of period plays/opera/ballet

2005-11-26 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Suzi Clarke wrote: But I cannot get over the ballet wall, even though I saw Nureyev and Fontaine in Les Sylphides. I hate the music, and don't enjoy the dancing. (And there are some seriously odd costumes in ballet too.) Oh wow. I'm just the opposite. I can barely