| feeling low about such bad behavior in the arts | |
| Posted by: bearcat 02:53 pm EST 12/05/17 | |
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| what with James Levine this week, with the big NYT story on sexual harassment dropping any day-I am find myself feeling low. I would think anyone who gulps the performing arts like I do feels a bit taken aback, if not throttled. all this talk that the arts are supposed to humanize...when such vultures have such presence. Try explaining that to someone who thinks La Traviata is El Triviato or how can Shakespeare be so great if he's so boring I am sorry for the hurt and wrong caused to the children and vulnerable individuals. People who pursue the arts tend to do so as an expression of their core, and now that lifeline has been upended. Many times we read that a child pursues performing because it's a respite from world in which they just don't fit in...and then this happens to them. Salvation has become its own kind of hell. And I fear that arts interest will be tainted by this scandal. "THE ARTS" have always been suspect by many in America, and I am worried that sexual predation will impede arts education and exploration. I can't help thinking that there are parents who will say to their children "don't go to or participate in a performance. you know what those people are like"... I know that the countless good artists will do what they can. Perhaps the MET and Equity Cares are working on a concert of solidarity and sympathy right now It is just so stomach churning awful and so chillingly sad. and I am still saddened by the death of Dmitri Hvrostovsky, and missing the opportunity to hear him a few more times. if life gets any uglier... |
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