artwork: ralph murre
They are
tap dancing to Vivaldi
in
Albany , New
York
according
to the Community
Message
Board heard three times
daily
on your commercial classical
music
station. All four seasons are
going
to be represented. How?
It
is difficult to imagine exactly
how. You will have to travel to
tap
dancers will be a new kind
of
Rockettes Revue, low-steppers
instead
of high kickers, eschewing
Country
and Western line dancing
routines
for fancy dancing, no, not
step
dancing, mind you, or show
tune
dancing but something more
refined,
something applicable to each
of
our four seasons. This is Vivaldi
after
all, not Lloyd-Webber or have
The
Seasons been changed, abridged,
up
tempoed, truncated or tarted up
for
a mass audience appeal? You
will
have to travel to Albany
out. Some of us will remain at home,
listening
to the original, awaiting your
critical
reports of just what these tap
dancing
people thought they were doing
to
Vivaldi on a Friday Night in Albany
~
Alan Catlin
* previously published in The Art of Survival
(Kings Estate Press)
