| To: vocalist Subject: Fairy-tale art songs Date sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:14:11 PST Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
One of my art-song collections contains "The Sleeping Princess" by Borodin. Gentle, and as disturbing as anything penned by the Grimm brothers.
And... thanks to John Coltraine, you just might find "Someday My Prince Will Come" in some jazz collections.
Elizabeth Finkler mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com
Forget about openly "educational" programming like "The Magic Schoolbus" and "Schoolhouse Rock." What these shows tell children about, say, the human body or using conjunctions properly can be picked up easily enough elsewhere, whether on a playground or in a public library. Consider instead the singular wisdom learned from animated sages like Bugs Bunny. The irrepressible, Oscar-winning rabbit and his cartoon cohorts have taught millions of American children precisely the sort of powerful, subversive truths from which adults try to shield them: that smart-alecks have more fun; that mocking authority is often the right thing to do; that tortoises beat hares (especially when tortoises cheat); that the world is often a cruel and desperate place that would just as soon drop an anvil on your head as give you a hand up; and, most important of all, that a sense of humor and resilience is the only way to make it through the years to come. ---Nick Gillespie
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