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

2005-11-26 Thread Dianne Greg Stucki
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 never really leave college for

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

2005-11-26 Thread Sue Clemenger
and linen stash for makings for some 10th c. (western) Norse outfits. What's everyon else doing? - Original Message - From: Dianne Greg Stucki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Modern interpretations

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

2005-11-26 Thread Helen Pinto
Sue wrote: I adore music from the Renaissance and Baroqe periods, though, and Mozart (does he count as Baroqe or Romantic?). Mozart is considered classical, along with Haydn and early Beethoven. Classicism is between Baroque and Romantic. -Helen/Aidan (Who grew up not

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

2005-11-26 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 11/26/2005 11:59:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but definitely not that serial stuff.) ** Definitely NOT so... As 12 tone music becomes more historicalI find that it can not be so bad. In fact I like a lot of it. I 1st

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

[h-cost] Modern interpretations of period plays

2005-11-25 Thread Joannah Hansen
One thing that I found interesting about Baz Luhrman's 'Romeo and Juliet', was that he didn't change the dialogue to modern speech, but kept the language of the original script/play, and after the first realization of the fact that the characters are speaking Elizabethan English, you totally