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[kag]

1. Thank you for posting this.

I'd never seen an interview with Sendak. He has such unique views on childhood and children. It's refreshing.

What scares me is his fear for children (and the rest of us, I assume) in 1991!!!! I look back on those days as one of the best times in my life. It seems so carefree compared to today.

Anyway, thanks again.

[betsuni]

2. You're welcome.

I like what Balanchine said about Tchaikovsky: He "remained a child all his life, he felt things like a child. He liked the German idea that man in his highest development approaches the child. Tchaikovsky loved children as themselves, not as future adults. Children contain maximum possibilities. Those possibilities often do not develop, they are lost. The Nutcracker at our theater is for children young and old. That is, for children and for adults who are children at heart. Because, if an adult is a good person, in his heart he is still a child. In every person the best, the most important part is that which remains from childhood."

[Still In Wisconsin]

3. I have seen PNB's Nutcracker and LOVED it.

I much prefer it to the Balanchine version.