1. Know the past through culture and art.
2. Bring the holistic truths into the present and never be satisfied with
simple literacy as a substitute for the subtlety of language.
3. Realize that being able to read the time capsules of your past are
essential to working within the present and imagining the future into
existence.
4. Singing, dancing, acting the works of your cultural past allows you to
experience them in a way that reading will never touch. Playing the great
works of art or singing the great choruses will both explain the horrors
of the past and the violence of the present as well as the ideals that
make life tolerable.
I just enjoyed the heartfelt, slightly uncomfortable singing of Dame Kiri
as she touched her past on the CD Kiri sings Maori.
What seems on first hearing to be kitsch changes as you listen more
deeply.
I wish you well.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble of New York, Inc.
mcore@idt.net
Sandra Lukey wrote:
> I have been on the list for a couple of months - so it's time to introduce
> myself! I am a 27 year old New Zealander with a background in Industrial
> Psychology, biochemistry, computers and learning .. which is just happens
> to be great background for my current project which is putting together a
> conference this December with the theme "living enterprises - creating
> value from knowledge".. http://www.smartnet.co.nz
--"Ray E. Harrell" <mcore@idt.net>
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