Not what Tchaikovksy had in mind, but….
Bookworm on Mar 14 2008 at 10:48 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I know that Tchaikovsky never envisaged Swan Lake being presented in the way the “Great Chinese State Circus” performs it, but it is a must see, with the really amazing stuff beginning at about 3:30.
Hat tip: Gerry Charlotte Phelps
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I actually understood those simple German words. Until he got complicated at the end.
So… which culture are we understanding here? Chinese? Germany? Russian? Chinese via Russian via German?
The reason why Palestinians don’t produce such things is not because they don’t understand other cultures. It is because they choose not use their comprehension for anything productive. Such things, to them, are not the way of Allah.
Such things are seriously challenged by the various artifacts created by more than one culture interfacing. It seriously challenges the notion of white majority months requiring a Black History Month to compensate for the cultural inferiority complex going around. It would be like saying that this production is incomplete because it does not give homage to culture X and or not enough Chinese/Russian influences.
There’s nothing intrinsic about a group that wishes for special treatment. They may indeed have worked hard to achieve it, creating a justified day or month for remembrance. Independence Day, for example, is a day of celebration that provides special treatment of American ancestors. There is no automatic reason why a black history month would be a product of a sense of inferiority or even an abuse of a people’s problems. However, when black history month is excused as being valid because whites have all the other months for themselves, speaks too much of a mentality that only feels superior by dragging other people down into the muck. If you have a solid sense of your culture, then it wouldn’t matter what anyone else was doing for their own. You wouldn’t have to say, nor would you want to say, that people should celebrate black history cause people celebrate white history. Cause that are truly proud of their own works, don’t need to put down other people and their cultures just to feel superior.
Creators, thus, have little time or tolerance for criticism. Thus illustrating the divide between creators of art and the critics of art.
I noticed her natural response was to use English instead of German to respond to the praise. I wonder if English would be the lingua franca uniting the global economically, legally, and militaristically had the military part of the equation been absent.
It’d be an interesting experiment.