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I tend to share your feelings, leonid. I can recall big hair and a rather mannered voice, but a very striking woman. I remember her in Tom Jones and The Wicker Man, offhand. This article in The Australian has more details. Quite a life. She even studied ballet briefly. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/vibrant-star-swapped-fame-for-a-rainforest/story-e6frg8n6-1226164239742

I tend to share your feelings, leonid. I can recall big hair and a rather mannered voice, but a very striking woman. I remember her in Tom Jones and The Wicker Man, offhand. This article in The Australian has more details. Quite a life. She even studied ballet briefly. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/vibrant-star-swapped-fame-for-a-rainforest/story-e6frg8n6-1226164239742

"Anonymous" will be out this month.

I tend to agree that the closer, the better, in general and up to a point.

There is no particular reason to believe that the people in the middle of the road are seekers of the true way while those on either side are blinded by dogma. But I agree with Quiggin that we're headed far off the reservation here.

It's a big topic, Ballet fan. Sorry this thread fell through the cracks. It seems that in general there is more emphasis on dancing than acting even in companies that concentrate on story ballets and the actress-dancer who was known as much for her dramatic gift as her technique (which could be wanting on occasion) is a type not frequently encountered these days. Well...not necessarily. There's dramatic intelligence and dance intelligence, and as Amy notes the former can get in the way in the wrong choreography.

It's perfectly true that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But those are politically motivated distinctions and often specious, made so that the focus is on the terror- and not the -ism. It's also true that the word racist gets thrown around a lot. That is still no reason to bar it from the discussion. In any case change in these matters doesn't necessarily occur through everyone making nice but by someone getting sued up the wazoo.

Dale writes: And then there's choreography like Balanchine's for the corps in "Diamonds," which is pretty but not terribly interesting at orchestra level, but when viewed from upstairs the jewel-like patterns are clearly visible.

Euphemisms are useful within certain contexts when it is helpful to all concerned to fog an issue, not necessarily a positive thing. There's no reason for recourse to them here and calling a thing by its proper name may be divisive but it can also be a necessary spur. As was discussed at length earlier in this long thread, racism takes a variety of forms, institutional as well as individual, and personal animus is not always involved. It is still racism.

It can be very difficult to figure out the truth of these matters from news reports. I don't think you're off base at all. Rich donors are attracted by exclusivity. Some of them may also be motivated by love of the arts, but arts patronage has always played a role in social climbing, and if you ditch the dinner jackets you may also be ditching the deep pockets, with only an unreliable audience to replace them. It's a fine line for arts organizations to walk. A variation on the foregoing has been happening in statehouses all over the country. And Timmy did fine yesterday, so perhaps it is time to get him off the bench.

Nice article, innopac, thank you. Pamela, when you were doing your translation, what aspects of his poetry were you trying hardest to convey? Was it the "feel" as you wrote? Is your meter close to his, for example?

Yes, indeed. It's not necessarily a contradiction. It's all too possible to be both.

This is great, emilienne. I didn't know about this. Thanks!

I had the same reaction, more or less. Not my favorite Fellini.

It sounds as if he will. Certainly he seems to have energy to spare! As Balanchine said, quoting from memory - "Ballet isn't for everybody, but it's for anybody."

Greetings, leonid. Good to hear from you. This obit in The National Post by Michael Crabb discusses Grant's tenure directing the National Ballet of Canada in more detail -- some of the other obits barely mention it.

Hi, leonid. Good to hear from you. This obit in The National Post by Michael Crabb discusses Grant's tenure directing the National Ballet of Canada in more detail -- some of the other obits barely mention it.

Reviving superannuated forms of pop and folk is often a form of academic excavation and it makes sense that it would appeal to educated bourgeois and aspiring bohemians. Academic? Bob Dylan said that rock'n'roll songs "weren't serious or didn't reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings." Eric Clapton called Muddy Waters a father figure. I'll wager that for every fan who pursued a degree in ethnomusicology, 1000 took up the guitar. They weren't reading papers at Club 47 or The Kettle of Fish. They were singing and swapping songs and emulating their heroes. They were relating cross-culturally. A golden age, to be sure. I have heard of Clapton and Dylan.

Thank you for posting the news and these details, Pamela. Never heard of him, but I trust he's deserving.

Thanks for posting, bart. No harm in starting small. Arts education needs all the help it can get here, as you say.

Well, Churchill said it was the worst form of government except for all the others. Gergiev and the Mariinsky are performing Tchaikovsky symphonies here in the Bay Area soon and I'm planning to catch at least one of those performances.

A program focused on the French horn - what a great idea. I don't know where you find the energy, but thank you for telling us about these evenings.

Such a loss, indeed - one of the last and most important, if not the most important, direct links to Ashton. Grant takes so much with him. He has a monument -- an enduring monument, one hopes -- in the roles Ashton made for him that are warrant for and witness to his unique gifts.

Reviving superannuated forms of pop and folk is often a form of academic excavation and it makes sense that it would appeal to educated bourgeois and aspiring bohemians.

A highly debatable point, but leaving that aside, I believe other posters already responded adequately to this aspect of the discussion earlier in the thread.