Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.
I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.
Music and opera are a big part of my life.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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