[Publib] Dress, Joe Schallan, Carmen & Cleavage

[Donna Jo Atwood]

I was just talking to a friend today about KC's up-coming version of
Aida--we're going to go although I doubt we'll get the live elephants for
the grand processional.  But think what a sensation THAT would be at your
library! 

Donna Jo Atwood
Reference Librarian 
Olathe (S)Public Library
-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Sue Kamm
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:12 PM
To: John; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] Dress, Joe Schallan, Carmen & Cleavage

I'm told Geraldine Farrar caused a sensation in Zaza...

-----Original Message-----
>From: John <jrichmond at alphapark.org>
>Sent: Aug 23, 2007 3:23 PM
>To: publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Publib] Dress, Joe Schallan, Carmen & Cleavage
>
>(Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith....)
>
>Joe, if you can convince your administration to schedule an Opera Day, I
will take vacation time to come and help you celebrate.  Perhaps even though
your colleagues are not as deranged as you and/or I, some of them might
like, say, Broadway musicals, and could dress themselves accordingly.
>
>I fear that some literalists, sans any sense of the ridiculous or the
ironic--which are sometimes quite closely related--will find your reference
to *cleavage* troubling.  So be it.  I can think of something/someone worse
than Carmen, i.e., Salome.  That "Dance of the Seven Veils," depending upon
how high you want to raise the temperature(s) in your Arizona library, could
be a matter of some delicacy.  Or no delicacy whatsoever.
>
>I believe that the Dallas Civic Opera presented a disturbing "Thais" quite
a while back, with a Thais--a French woman, Denise Duval, I think, in the
lead, and you know how decadent those *French* are--who, well...she had on
clothing, but it was barely recognizable as such.  Don't know why the Texans
should've been bothered, what with that best little whorehouse bidness down
there....
>
>So--if you must raise a ruckus, go on beyond Carmen!
>
>John D. Richmond, Director
>Alpha Park Public Library District
>3527 So. Airport Road
>Bartonville, IL 61607
>Ph: (309) 697-3822, ext. 12
>Fax: (309) 697-9681
>E-mail: jrichmond at alphapark.org
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