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From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: poem
> 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
>
I am upset about B\"ohm. I have his set of Mozart operas on vinyl.
The names of the artists are not always given and therefore not easy to
identify. Study hard.
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