Scene4 Magazine | letters to the editor

The language is so evocative, I can almost hear the music!
Arthur Kanegis
read Ned Bobkoff's article

Very instructive...it confirms we all have that little sadistic side inside us...better to keep it hidden. My congratulations on a great article.
Markos
read Salem Kapsaski's article

Another enjoyable article Les. Oh how my mind broadens with your articles! Always interesting and I love your take on life. Keep writing them and I'll be here each month to read them!! I've gotta run now, you gave me a craving for a box of chocolates.
Michele Dowell
read Les Marcott's article

Powerful, incisive article. Reveals the conditioning tribal process behind killing one's own kind. Left-brain thinking (male dominated) politicized today by exclusive states leads to the "winning/losing" syndrome. Adding religion historically fortifies fictional differences. Since 1945, humanity as a species became threatened. Only the perennial one world philosophy made manifest which concludes the article is relevant to human survival on planet earth.
Garry Davis
read Arthur Kanegis' article

Good illuminating information, placing theater in historical perspective.
Grace Cavalieri
read Karren Alenier's article

I hope Kathi's weird dreams keep coming at us...they are delicious.
Grace Cavalieri
read Kathi Wolfe's article

A very revealing and deep review of this very revealing and deep dance artist. There is no one else like Sylvie Guillem. I especially enjoy the way you layer your commentary and perceptions - this is one of the best dance reviews I've read in a long time. It ought to be reprinted in the New Yorker instead of the "old cow" prattle-prattle that passes for writing about dance in that premier journal. When are you going to do a one-on-one interview with Sylvie? You're just the writer to do that and finally capture her in words, which you just about did in this review. Thank you very much.
Phillip Goldsmith
read Renate Stendhal's article

I greatly enjoyed, and identified with, Lia Beachy's "Summer Camp." I've written three books of poetry, but I could have written six AND a volume of short stories if it weren't for "The Daily Show," "24," Turner Classic Movies and the Travel Channel! But if writers didn't watch Oprah, there'd be no Oprah to invite writers on her show. (And, by the way, thanks for her very kind words about my review of "Once." It's a movie everyone with any romance or music in their
souls should see.)
Miles Moore
read Lia Beachy's article

Arthur Kanegis' moving discussion of the film Nanking pinpoints the severely trying choices people of courage must make confronting the dragon of the war machines. The stupidity of nationalistic pride in the face of human suffering, and the taught cruelties of teaching men how to kill, for whatever reason, subverts the common bonds of humanity and destroys our natural inclination to cross borders and shake hands with our fellow citizens of the world. I wish the Nanking film discussion had been the lead article in the July issue of Scene4. No other subject was as keenly felt, or as important, as Arthur Kanegis' precise and compassionate article. There are choices now that we all must make to preserve a common sense of human decency. And there is no way around it, except by keeping our heads above water with our eyes closed.
Ned Bobkoff
read Arthur Kanegis' article

Great read on Les Marcot's diary notes. Intimate, honest, real, with a touch of the satirical. Sentiment does work after all.
Ned Bobkoff
read Les Marcott's article

Molly Post's descriptions of "Coma" with its heartbreaking miasma and its effect on loved ones, "Waking Aphrodite" with its try out deceptions and successes of love and sexuality, the jump rope joys of "Double Time", and the spin out hypocrisy of the Chinese government practicing artificial democracy with young students in "Please Vote For Me", captured each film clearly with selected images and straight forward words. Thank you Molly Post.
Ned Bobkoff
read Molly Post's article

Ok, Arthur M, I was taken into purity by your comments regarding Vivaldi and Yo Yo Ma. Why then did you cut it off and take a bath? I thought there was another thought yet to come. Eh, what?
Ned Bobkoff
read Arthur Meiselman's article

Exactly!

The article was helpful. I read it because I was trying to find out how long the opera lasted. "3 hours of dread" was the best I could come up with after 1/2 hour of googling.
John Phillips
read Karren Alenier's article

Thanks for sharing this disturbing and moving article. I think you serve us all by not letting these atrocities be forgotten, and in stressing "putting that past behind you and going forward in a peaceful way".
Scott Hoffman
read Arthur Kanegis' article

Just to wanted to let you know - Vilanoba didn't almost drop Feijoo, she actually had a mis-step and he caught her to keep her from completely falling and taking him down with her.
M. White
read Catherine Honig's article