"Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce mirror" (I'm humming)
Thank you for finding this article. I am going to try to find this teacher's email and send her a note of encouragement. The inmates have really taken over the jail.
I am deeply prejudiced against stupid people. One finds this sort of ignorance all over the place where people aren't educated or exposed to anything but Christian rock.
For this evening's entertainment I shall pull out my recording with Victoria de los Angeles and Nicolai Gedda conducted by Andre Cluytens.
French. That's it. 'Just figured it out.
Victoria! I once got to work for her, way long ago, around 1970. She is a doll.
I still love her milky voice.
You left part of the story out in your blockquote.
Her critics questioned the decision to show children a portrayal of the devil, Mephistopheles, along with a scene showing a man being killed by a sword and a reference to suicide.
The latter two are valid reasons for objecting to a video shown to grade schoolers.
They have no objection to The Chronicles of Narnia which show death and portray evil.
Hell! The fricking BIBLE!!!!
What tale gets told to very small children (like I heard about it when 2 years old!!!!)
NOAH'S ARK.
And it is about the extinction of much of the planet's life because God had a hissy fit! Wow. Talk about violence! Drowning, lightning bolts raining down, everything dead except a tiny handful of animals and a few humans?
Then there is the Cross. Talk about violence.
They are, as I keep saying, insane.
Small children are told about Jesus and how he was born and HOW HIS PARENTS FLED and all the babies two years old and under in Bethlehem were murdered.
Gads. I grew up listening to these stories which were taught in Bible school to tots. Very young kids.
Issac! Being sacrificed by his dad! Geezuz almighty.
Salome and the headless prophet, well, as my daughter said when she saw this story as a young child, 'I think he wants his head back.' Heh.
They have no objection to The Chronicles of Narnia which show death and portray evil.
The linked AP story does not talk about Narnia. But how nice you can infer and sterotype.
Hell! The fricking BIBLE!!!!
And so? Their objections are still valid. Possibly hypocritical but there are worse vices.
Brian, you are a laugh riot.
So, these sheltered tots never watch TV? No cartoons? Never read the Bible? Never see violence?
Incredible.
Sorry, it's not age appropriate at all.
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Resent the early years of relig. propaganda myself. Much more should be made age senstive. Same for NY LA asses not being permitted to market to kids and same for letting the rest of us have back to 3-4 good channels of good programming. The garbage and garbage can belongs on the street.
These people were justified in protecting their children.
Taking one's own arts for the highest and best arts is a mistake of arrogance. Holding people in contempt only leads you to dehumanize and fear them.
I don't know what excerpts from Faust were shown, but some moral themes in that work are not appropriate for young children. Did straight laced Victorian society bring their nine year old children (laborers) to their great operas? Have you ever sat in an opera close to a person with a couple nine year olds? Heh, I'm not even sure that tract of argument advances my points.
I keep getting a 'document contains no data' error when trying to go back to the article, so I'll stop here.
I applaud the teacher in question for trying to broaden horizons, but couldn't she have chosen a less religious work? Church and state might be an argument here too (was it a public school?).
WOW.
My first opera experience was "The Magic Flute" when I was four.
I saw "Fidelo" when six.
I got my first "Ring of the Nibelungen" recording when I was NINE YEARS OLD.
"La Traviata" when only seven.
I remember asking my mother why the soprano was coughing to death and she explained how lung diseases due to pollution in cities was very bad back then.
My children witnessed many operas before 10 years of age. Every Saturday, I had the radio blasting them at home. Went to the Met with them since they were tots.
This is ridiculous. Bet these same people won't let their kids see Shakespeare, either. I saw my first Shakespearian play when only three years old. Still see his plays. Gads.
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