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2015-11-04 21:23:00
Fragrant Handel Acis and Galatea La nuova musica
Handel Acis and Galkatea with la nuova musica and David Peter Bates.r. St John's Smith Square is the finest period performing space for baroque music in London, but, since it was built as a church it doesn't have space for anything but the most minimal staging. But La nuova musica confronred the problem with a solution worthy of the audacious spirit of the baroque. Enhanced by fragrance, this Acis and Galatea highlighted the fundamental sensuality of the drama by stimulating our sense of smell Invisible staging, no less ! "In Handel's time, scents abounded", said Sarah McCartney, who created the fragrance choreography, for choreography it was indeed, extending the impact of the music. This Acis and Galatea confronted the sanitized conformity of our modern world and brought us closer to the creative soul of the period. Scents […]
2015-06-07 19:58:20
[…] people committed to truth and courage, it can also provide lesser lights of society with the opportunity to become ‘great minds’ merely on the basis of having the guts to say it like it is. In the story of the EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, the kid who says the Emperor is near-naked isn’t smarter than other townsfolk. He simply has the gall to speak the truth. (My guess as to why some conservatives think Thomas Sowell is such an intellectual giant has little to do with his supposed ‘genius’. Sure, he’s a smart guy, but his main advantage has been a willingness, especially for a black man, to observe and write about obvious things that sound startling ONLY BECAUSE most of us, like the townsfolk in EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, are not supposed to notice. If one is not allowed to notice or say that it’s raining when it’s raining, […]
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