A goose quill dipped in venom
Now, La Cieca believes in turning a gimlet eye on everyone and everything, you know that. But even your doyenne finds this latest Zinta Lundborg screed, well, harsh is the only word.
… the company’s funereal new logo is a black circle, which evokes thoughts of the deficit or even oblivion. Presenting four performances of “Esther,” starting on Nov. 7, won’t help matters.
A loud work by Hugo Weisgall about the Biblical queen, “Esther” was heard at City Opera in 1993, winning over few fans ….
In the 1950s and 1960s, European immigrants with intellectual tastes supported the company.
They are dead now, as dead as “Esther.”
More from Ms. Lundborg (whose name, by the way, is an anagram for “a burnt old zing”) at Bloomberg.com.
Mrmyster(49)
..just a slight correction–the offending article, in question .was under the auspices of The Bloomberg News-Service…not The Post(NY , or otherwise…)
I don’t even know..or think that Bloomberg produces a hard-copy print edition..but acts mainly as a wire-service…
What a tragedy that so many cultural institutions look like they are headed by characters out of Orwell’s Animal Farm. As they all race to use the available money trough. Then, munch up all the money while fighting amongst themselves, playing power games for ultimate self supremacy.
Moola shmooola:
I thought the phrase was “deader than disco.” (or, alternatively but less alliteratively, NYCO.)