At 12:59 AM 1/23/2005, you wrote:
>Anny said she wanted her Sunday poem. After watching last night's brilliant
>TV music memorial for those who died at Auschwitz it has to be this one.
I believe this is being broadcast in the States on the 27th. There is
supposed to be a performance by a beautiful and extraordinarily talented
young opera soprano named Isabel Bayrakdarian. I can only imagine that
someone of Armenian heritage would feel in her gut the presences in that
"camp."
>Bruno Bettelheim had the insight that some children experience their own
>internal holocaust in childhood damaging their personalities irrevocably.
>Mine happened early.
I remember hearing first and then using this line, attributed to Edward
Glover, a disciple of Melanie Klein: "Early childhood is living in a
lavatory over a butcher shop while it's being shelled by artillery." Close
enough.
>Appalling
>
>
>Old men, who should know better,
>Sidle up to me and say:
>
>Young men, who should know better,
>Sidle up to me and say:
>
>`Adolf had it right about the Jews.'
>
>Six million columns of smoke-dust
>rise from this century
>and they ask for more.
Yes. What more can one say? Another opera theme. Some years before he
died, the brilliant conductor Karl Bohm was appearing at the San Francisco
Opera. He was taken to dinner by the (also late) Terry McEwan, the company
General Manager. Bohm put a few too many under his belt and, in vino
veritas, began saying things like "We failed, we didn't get them
all." McEwan summarily fired Bohm, who was invited never to return to the
San Francisco Opera. Some people do the right thing, but unfortunately
they don't manage governments, only opera companies.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
"This is the best of all possible worlds only because it is the only one
that showed up."-- Russell Edson
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