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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 7:10:32 GMT -5
Mr. Damman, one of our most regular contributors, reminds us that while Moses and Aron were at the Millennium Centre Cardiff only until June the seventh, they have since then been "touring" and will continue to do so until July the twenty-sixth. So that could be your chance, especially if you have a mind capable of conceiving a God Who is single, infinite, omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable. How does your mind measure up? Bear in mind that jolly old Schönberg's idea of banned representations extends to "Vorstellungen" in the Kantian sense, and to the notion that God lies beyond the power of human imagining, and that the attempt to imagine Him or to represent Him to the temporal mind is blasphemous already in itself. Is the ban on graven images therefore self-evident to our esteemed Membership? What will you do in your own third act if like Moses you "lack the words"? Can you see yourself dancing around a Golden Calf? And how long would you do it for before giving up?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 6:08:31 GMT -5
I did miss out on the Cardiff orgy, Sydney, but the opera is coming to Covent Garden. Join us! The Third - Moses und AronIf I may nevertheless address all five of your questions directly: a. Mr. Damman, one of our most regular contributors, reminds us that while Moses and Aron were at the Millennium Centre Cardiff only until June the seventh, they have since then been "touring" and will continue to do so until July the twenty-sixth. So that could be your chance, especially if you have a mind capable of conceiving a God Who is single, infinite, omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable. How does your mind measure up? Badly. b. Bear in mind that jolly old Schönberg's idea of banned representations extends to "Vorstellungen" in the Kantian sense, and to the notion that God lies beyond the power of human imagining, and that the attempt to imagine Him or to represent Him to the temporal mind is blasphemous already in itself. Is the ban on graven images therefore self-evident to our esteemed Membership? No. c. What will you do in your own third act if like Moses you "lack the words"? We shall go dancing, Sydney. d. Can you see yourself dancing around a Golden Calf? No. e. And how long would you do it for before giving up? 135 minutes. According to Rupert Christiansen, writing in ' The Daily Telegraph', the second act of the opera sees the democratic hall turned into a cinema, and the (oddly decorous) orgy is stimulated not by a golden idol, but some seductively corrupting movie, the content of which the audience is left to imagine. The concept is persuasive, although Schoenberg would have insisted that the question here is the truth of God’s law, not man’s or society’s. The Telegraph - Moses und Aron, Welsh National Opera/Wales Millennium Centre, review: 'never falters'We saw the film ' The Red Shoes' recently, and although the red shoes are no golden calf, this is a parable about the demands of art, as well as a stunning demonstration of cinema's claim to have united the traditional arts in a new synthesis. Anton Walbrook’s manipulative ballet impresario asks his new leading lady: ‘What do you want from life? To live?’ To which Moira Shearer replies, ‘To dance.’ In addition to being an art director’s fevered dream, Powell and Pressburger’s genre-busting, lush, plush and dangerous-to-know masterpiece of dance and drama is a startlingly passionate story of art, jealousy, love and death that remains unsurpassed, and which has directly influenced artists from Kate Bush to Martin Scorsese. BFI - The Red Shoes BBC Radio 3 - The Essay - The Red ShoesUnfortunately, I was a little disappointed (9/10). Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote that he would only believe in a god who could dance. You could try dancing too, Sydney? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 18:19:45 GMT -5
Well if you kleines c do attend Covent Garden and happen upon any goings-on of a startlingly passionate nature do please submit to the body of the Membership a report in triplicate of your experiences. Personally I am both startled by and passionate about the unblushing effrontery of their ticket prices.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 11:39:07 GMT -5
When I was a student, Sydney, I used to get standby tickets for the Garden, but these days I am generally asked to attend various operas and ballets by colleagues, clients and competitors (in that order). The business community is, in general, pretty ignorant of high culture, so perhaps they find my presence reassuring. Of course, the paradox is that on the populist-elitist spectrum of high culture, I find myself, certainly amongst the Friends of Radio 3 (FoR3), at the populist extreme, which possibly explains why it is my friend the legendary bb, rather than kleines c, who posts on the Radio 3 Forum.
Last time I sat in the orchestra stalls, incidentally, I was appalled by the behaviour of the audience, who could not help but talk during the performance! I suppose that if you pay so much for a ticket, you feel the right to be a little self-indulgent? As for Arnold Schönberg, it is possible that he took classical music in the wrong direction in the twentieth century. We shall see!
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