Funding the Arts: An Investment in Global Citizenship?
2001; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3333788
ISSN1543-7809
Autores Tópico(s)Globalization and Cultural Identity
ResumoI recently attended a Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde conducted by Seiji Ozawa celebrating his twenty-fifth anniversary season as music director of the BSO. The tenor was Ben Heppner, a Canadian; the baritone Thomas Quasthoff, a German alternating with oprano Jessye Norman, an American. The orchestra itself consisted of an assortment of Americans, Canadians, Europeans, Chinese, and Japanese, including Ozawa, of courseall of them performing a work in German by an Austrian composer. Fifty years ago, most of the performers, particularly the soloists and conductor, would have been Europeans with only a few American or women players and certainly no Asians. All that has changed worldwide. American singers and instrumentalists are as likely to be found performing in Tokyo, London, or Vienna in opera, dance, or symphony performances as are nationals from those countries to be found performing in the United States and elsewhere. The world of classical music, always international, has now become truly global. Opera is perhaps traditionally, and most conspicuously, global. At any performance of the Metropolitan Opera of New York, for example, one encounters several different nationalities on stage, back stage, and in the orchestra pit. But the same is true of the plastic, dramatic, and literary arts nowadays. One is as likely to find Calders, Rothkos, and Pollacks on international exhibition as Picassos, Mondrians, and Monets. On Broadway, the English actor, Anthony Hopkins, is currently performing in a new production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. David Mamet's Pollanylna has played the West End in London, and American and British musicals have long traded places across the Atlantic. Hardly anyone interested in literature could fail to notice the prominence of American, Latin American, and
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