tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post9172972817093067852..comments2024-01-24T08:24:14.555-05:00Comments on My Favorite Intermissions: Asked and answeredMaury D'annatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14136129943169313348noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-7822874820523878512009-08-15T16:32:51.218-05:002009-08-15T16:32:51.218-05:00Not that it's not besides the (well-made) poin...Not that it's not besides the (well-made) point, but as a Belgian it's my duty to correct the Auber anecdote: The Mute of Portici did indeed spark riots, but not to topple the monarchy, but rather for Belgium to gain its independence which was achieved a short revolutionary war with the Dutch later. If anything the opera installed Belgian monarchy as opposed to bringing it down.<br /><br />But still, a point well-made.Immanuel Gilenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04422265000447253768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-9329654859946059512009-08-12T03:51:41.476-05:002009-08-12T03:51:41.476-05:00Hi Maury,
I would also like to say hello in perso...Hi Maury,<br /><br />I would also like to say hello in person, perhaps you and Will, who I know well, can have a ite before something.<br /><br />As to donating, I have very little to donate these days, although I do plan to see Esther. But if I had it I'd donate it because there is no other way they will make it, and I want NYCO to remain (become again?) a viable and vital company.<br /><br />Kathy BoyceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-67150955021596821542009-08-11T14:34:13.632-05:002009-08-11T14:34:13.632-05:00Maury, thank you very much for your kind words abo...Maury, thank you very much for your kind words about my comment on Parterre. I am indeed the Will of DesignerBlog. I'm not always mad for the tone maintained by the Parterre commenters--rather mad AT them sometimes--but I hang in there for some of the more informed and rational comments--yours very much included.<br /><br />I have a number of performances in NYC this coming season and if, by lucky chance, any one of my dates corresponds to any of yours, I would very much like to say hello in person.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-65011330639903625172009-08-10T10:36:29.167-05:002009-08-10T10:36:29.167-05:00Gert @1 says
"Logically, we should withhold o...Gert @1 says<br /><i>"Logically, we should withhold our donations from any cause to which our political adversaries also donate be it arts, or charities of any nature."</i><br /><br />This, I don't get.<br /><br />So, if a right-winger donates to the American Red Cross, you don't? What about GMHC, or Meals On Wheels?<br />Because I can assure you that all those groups and many others benefit from barrels of right-wing money.<br /><br />Granted, the situation is a little more gray with cultural organizations because of concerns that the donations may be given with the intention to shape the group's message.<br /><br />for an extended discussion see also, <i>Major Barbara</i>.<br /><br />-- RDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-12569486947222535892009-08-09T14:59:23.169-05:002009-08-09T14:59:23.169-05:00Maury -- Parterre is the only blog that I post on ...Maury -- Parterre is the only blog that I post on anonymously because of the vitriol. I am the person who made the comment that NYC Opera and Ballet will not be getting a cent of my money.<br /><br />It's because Koch and his ilk have stepped over a line. They are funding the mobs that are storming these meetings and shouting anyone down who might want to make a point or have a reasonable discussion.<br /><br />I'm Jewish so I don't use Nazi analogies lightly but what I have seen is frighteningly reminiscent of Weimar Germany. People like Koch deliberately appeal to the worst in people (the deliberate distortion of palliative care at the end of the life being made to seem as if the elderly will be euthanized) and that is truly evil to me. <br /><br />And FWIW, I came to opera through the Ring and I LOVE Wagner's music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17999907.post-34605861789933102462009-08-09T06:58:15.448-05:002009-08-09T06:58:15.448-05:00I agree that it is incredibly ignorant to think th...I agree that it is incredibly ignorant to think that the creation of many (most?) art works happened in a political vacuum.<br /><br />I think it is entirely legitimate to choose not to spend money to contribute to the profits of an individual/organisation whom we fundamentally disagree with, although, in practice, how many of us are fully informed (if at all) about who actually profits from our consumer spending.<br /><br />It's more difficult in cases like this when it's, as you put it, 'our pet art'. Logically, we should withhold our donations from any cause to which our political adversaries also donate be it arts, or charities of any nature. <br /><br />Whether choosing not to spend is the same as boycotting, I don't know. There are certain charities I may have supported in the past that I choose currently not to donate to for sometimes obscure reasons specific to me. <br /><br />In practice, their lack of donations from me doesn't make them any different from the numerous charities I also don't support because of lack of awareness, or interest, or simply because they are lower priorities - to me - than the ones I do support.Gerthttp://gertsamtkunstwerk.typepad.co.uk/weblog/noreply@blogger.com