Re: towards a definition of class

Scottie, I am continually amazed at your eloquence. Bravo
tina

> Coincidentally, last week saw the death of someone
> who had surely become the exemplar of American class
> to the point of cliché - La Hepburn. (Cliché but still,
> probably, the real article in a way that that more recent
> pretender, Grace Kelly, could never be, not in a million years.)
>
> In an obituary, one of her goddaughters described a recent,
> last evening together when the two of them had so happily
> attended a performance of Porgy & Bess given by the American
> company currently touring the world. By an even more tenuous
> coincidence, I read this tribute the morning after my wife & I
> had enjoyed the same wonderful show during its visit here to Cork.
> I doubt if they had any more pleasure from it than we did -
> or even as much. (Let me commend it to you next time it comes
> to Poughkeepsie.)
>
> Gershwin was a great melodic genius whom I revere. Yet with all
> his elegance of line, his absolute individuality, the word 'class'
> seems quite inappropriate. (As it is, I suspect, to artistic creative
> activity generally.) As well as 'My man's gone', & the Rhapsody
> & 'Love walked in', George - remember - also wrote 'Swanee'.
> His tunes came out of those heart-broken worlds of ? synagogue ?
> & blues where the word 'class' would be as out of place, it seems
> to me, as a Chanel dress in a Rodin studio.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 9 23:09:53 2003