Dear Dave
Well that's encouraging, thanks, and I will be happy to review it for the
list.
regards
Melissa.
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Melissa, fantastic ... Could you give us a review for the list? I think that
it has been lazy journalism to suggest that it's operatic - Monkey certainly
was not - and from what I've seen in the way of previews Albarn provides a
narrative chorus on an acoustic guitar. I hope that it's good x
Dave
Dr Dave Green
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM):
http://www.sasm.co.uk
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We're going, I absolutley hate opera, but am intrigued enough sit through
this, hoping Albarn will make the music more palatable than real opera. We
are going with members of our Enochian group, on a trip organised by my
Dee/Kelley obsessed husband. He was happy to be left alone with free range
of the magical rooms with their wax works standing on a carpet printed with
the sigillum dei Ameth in the tourist office in the tower at Charles Bridge
in Prague recently, where they are well feted. Although Dee had a glittering
life he died poor and somewhat perplexed, the angels told him he would be
remembered world wide forever, (is this any recompense I wonder), and this
seems to be true; as well as the centuries that Enochia has not died away
in, and its influence on literature and occulture, this year I have read
reviews in main stream papers of two kids books that feature Dee, and he
seems to be popping up more each year.
regards
Melissa
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Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Doctor Dee
Dear all,
I am not sure that there has been any discussion on the list of Damon
Albarn's (of Blur fame) new musical based on the life of John Dee and due to
open in Manchester, UK, around now. Here is a short interview with Albarn:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8606376/Damon-Albarn-interview-for-Dr-Dee-opera-Manchester-International-Festival.html
I liked Monkey a lot, but not so convinced about this ...
Dave x==
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