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2022-03-24 00:47:00
Professor Jane Carr
Professor Jane Carr, far left, judging a kata contest. Healdsburg, 1987 Professor Jane Carr, 10th degree black belt, whom I'd known for nearly 40 years, died early in March at 83, following health problems, the details of which I'm not privy to, that culminated in a severe stroke. Prof. Carr started practicing jujitsu in 1960 not long after her first or second daughter was born. She was school head of the Redding Jujitsu Academy for at least the last 45 years, I think longer. She was incredibly tough and consequently got hurt many times when she was coming up through the ranks. Bad knees, bad shoulders, thrown on her head once, etc. I remember her saying sometime in the last few years that she hoped the folks she was talking to - in a class or a side conversation - would be more careful with their bodies than she was. She taught Danzan […]
2021-06-19 06:41:08
Directing the Don and discovering Dido: I chat to director Jack Furness in advance of his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera
[…] video. The work is more than just recitative and opera; though through-composed it is influenced by the 17th century English masque with its emphasis on dance, and Jack feels that it helps if we think of it as an experiment, rather than an integrated opera form. He has taken the opera glasses off and looked at the work in another way and suddenly it is amazing and he adores it. Jack Furness (Photo Thurstan Redding) The last year, and these new productions, have also made Jack think about the entire process of directing an opera and who the production is for. He feels that there is a tendency when working on an opera to think of the job as like writing an essay, to make a cogent argument about the piece. But this is very much an approach that is aiming the production at insiders, developing something that […]
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