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Arts Education Week. I never heard about it. Did you?

On July 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution designating the second week of September as “Arts in Education Week.” The resolution (H.Con.Res. 275) was proposed and introduced by Rep. Jackie Speier from California.

The resolution states: […] Arts education, comprising a rich array of disciplines including dance, music, theatre, media arts, literature, design, and visual arts, is a core academic subject and an essential element of a complete and balanced education for all students.

I read about it here.

… that I like is that there would be no woman sitting next to me busy playing with the cellophane wrapper she brought in. (This is what I had to deal with at Marriage of Figaro this week; through the entire first half the woman sitting to my right played with a rather large ball of cellophane. What a distraction!)

But you gotta bet someone from the Mets has taken note of this story.

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And while we’re at it, what about managers of symphony orchestras and opera companies struggling to fill houses on certain nights?

Could screen-printed images of extravagantly dressed, bejeweled opera fans–perhaps with audio enhancement in the form of a sound clip of a crowd cheering “Bravo, bravo!” to be played through the house speakers at the climactic end of arias–be the future for the Metropolitan Opera House or other performance art venues?

I know that doesn’t really fill you in on the whole story, so you really have to click on the link to Susan Laney Spector’s blog. 🙂