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WAAM Talk 1600
"bob avian" Discussed on WAAM Talk 1600
"I'm going to get back to the material we started with last week. Thank you, everybody. For those of you who wrote me at Edwin at where? Radio dot com. Thank you very much for your e mails and for the call that I received two, saying how much you enjoyed last week's broadcast, sort of really recounting of my travels by first really serious museum travels overseas and that that took place in the winter of 82 83. When I went first to France, that is a very good family. Friends stayed there for a couple of weeks in Paris and then took a train than the ferry over to England. In a snow storm landing and over, I felt like a Viking or William the conqueror. Something like that. I mean, everything was mysterious and I wanted to go there in the winter time. As I told you Because the theme of Dickens was running through my mind. I wanted to experience sort of Scrooges, England, so to speak. I want to Experience Shakespeare's London but but not in the summertime, not you know, when it's all the tourists go there. As it turns out, all the Australian tourists are there then not the Americans, not the Continental Europeans, but I think probably half the young people of Australia are in London in the winter. Anyone here because it's their summer time. It's when they can travel s O. I met some wonderful people that way and traveled with them. It was a quiet, lovely winter, and I think one given to contemplation about artist, I introduced myself to great places like the National Gallery of London, which I'm going to be continuing with in a moment. The wonderful Museum I began with last week, the National Gallery's of Scotland in Edinburgh, where I saw more works of art that I had seen in books through my life and then being able to be in front of them in that lovely environment, which I guess the only other museum I conserve compared to it. With the caliber apart, that it has would be the first collection in New York, where you can basically see what is on display in about two hours. And if you're really quick about it in an hour, that's all the time you have you go away, though. With a very impactful experience. And for me seeing paintings like the Honorable Mrs Graham, where the skating minister. Bye Bye room. Rayburn, Thomas Gainsborough. Mrs. Graham and I said the study for that full length portrait is in the National Gallery in Washington. On. There's even more wonderful personality given to the face in that than in the finish finish portrait. Told you the big story about that with her husband and a merry Cathcart Graham came from an aristocratic family. She was not in very good health, though, as a young woman They take a trip to go to France and 17 92 during one of those laws between the wars between Britain and France, I think for about a year, but they're going during the year when the French monarchy is overthrown in the summer of 17 92. I think September 17 92, and they're put the flight. They take refuge in a old dungeon type prison fortified place from the middle Ages called the Temple, which was torn down. I think of the 19th century Finally, uh, but dingy, horrible place whether you're basically just really prisoners from that moment on until their execution and late 17 92 in the 93. Well, moving on 20 very grim ending but they were traveling to go there for her health when she died, it see, And but they had to catch the another ship, though they had to go on land. So they were traveling through France to get to another port. Take ship back to England with her coffin and the rest of the people they were traveling with, and they were set upon by French revolutionaries who were really stoked because of the 17 92. The monarchy had just been overthrown, and the accounts are a little bit different. They either Just simply inspected the coffin. Some people said that they remove the body. Whatever it was. The desecration was so disgusting in made Mr Graham so angry. He swore vengeance against rants he joined at middle age He joined the Army. He got a commission was a wealthy man he became became a major than a kernel of his regiment. He began fighting the French along with with Wellington. Um, first in, I believe in Spain, and then he was present in 18 15 at Waterloo, eh? So he wanted to get back at revolutionary France, and he did it and I was able to see that fabulous portrait. That was commissioned. I think three years after their marriage and 17 77 completed by Thomas Gainsborough there in Edinburgh, and it was in front of that painting that I said to myself, somehow I'm going to go into the art world because I had meant to actually go into law. I would later go back and return to Washington, D. C and I would work on Capitol Hill for my senator, and I'm going to I'm going to law school and I'm going to go into politics. I decided not to do that. Because what I was in that Senate office, I did so much fundraising. For museums in New Jersey and historic sites and claiming military say bases to make them into parks or historic sites for the public that I fell in love with the art world. With the conservation world of cultural, culturally important places, and so it diverted me and, um you know, s o that that element of practicality that element of relative prevalence, our reverence for the art to someone who is not necessarily going in that direction or thinking about it all the time has always been very important to me for the show. S so why don't we? Oh, I have to make one quick announcement. Um, it's kind of a sad announcement would be brief on it Really? Right now. We gave it so much attention a few weeks ago in December. I. Tom Santa Potro, the great film historian and Broadway theater manager through his career, using his stage background, then going into writing biographies of great stage and film actors. Considering Doris Day He talked with us about that. Frank Sinatra and Hollywood The Godfather effect in film. These are just some of his books. If you go to Constanta potro dot com You'll be able to go right to his website and see all the books he's written. While his latest book was written in collaboration with Bob Avian, the Great Broadway choreographer who just Dimension y two of them Dream girls in a chorus line. He put those together Dreamgirls he actually choreographed and directed himself. Uh, one of the great on one hand legends. Choreographic legends on Broadway, and Tom came out with his book Just a few weeks ago. Dancing Man, A Broadway choreographers Journey, The autobiography of Bob Avian, Um In collaboration with Tom Santa Pietra, who is our guest few weeks ago. Uh, Bob Avian died a little over a week ago, and I got a very moving email from Tom. Giving me the news and also sending me the just published obituary. I was very, very air well back to immediately. We've been in touch since, um and he he has the disks, and he also has the disk. That was meant for Bob. And he'll be giving that to Bob's husband s O. I'm happy that that he was very, very happy, he said to Tom to have been on my show right after being on NPR. Says very honored for that. And I'm gonna play just a little tribute, the very ending to that show from a few weeks ago with a clip from a chorus line, but one of the really great quotes not only in the book but one that is just engraved with Tom Santa Pho because he knew Bob avian for decades on Broadway, and it was basically It's a wonderful, just inspirational sentence that you should bear in mind all the time. Askew. Progress in life on you know you're reaching for the next level. I'm going to say that the very end. That's how the show's gonna wrap today. Okay, everybody. Well, I just wanted to let you know that I'm very sorry for the passing of Bob Avian great choreographer, the great artist who brought so much of our understanding of Broadway and how we appreciate Broadway plays how we appreciate Not only drama, but dance in bringing them together and making them sensible. All in in a in a musical. The impact of it you're you've got the wonderful of, uh, the artistry of the dance and then how it's integrated into the story and how it flows without was Barbadian. On. It was a a non er to be able to talk about him with his good friend Tom Santa Potro, co author of Bombs, autobiography, So we're gonna end with that A T end of the show. I think we ended last week where the National Gallery in London that fabulous as this built, I think, opening 18 51 in Trafalgar Square. I can tell you in the wintertime when the pigeons are all there around. Uh, the, uh, the Great Nelson Monument and Fountain, which is right there..
710 WOR
"bob avian" Discussed on 710 WOR
"To the New week on the big Show Our Big three stories. The article of Impeachment against Donald Trump will be sent from the house to the Senate today. The trial, though, will not begin until February, the knife and if you're wondering why he's being Impeached Well, we'll leave that to Chuck Schumer. Senators will have to decide If they believe Donald, John Donald John Trump. Incited the erection. Well, that's an important thing to the side and hopefully the red it up the flagpole, and that's what killed the son. Also in the Big Three. What else is new Tom Brady's in the Super Bowl for the 10th time. This one is a member of Tampa Bay, and the game is in Tampa Bay. That's never happened before. The Buccaneers will be hosting the champion Kansas City Chiefs in two weeks and rounding out the Big Three We lost a couple of legends 87 year old broadcaster Larry King. Larry had been hospitalized with covert. And one of baseball's all time great players and people. Hank Aaron, he was 86. No cause of death was given well. Ironically, he had taken the covert vaccine a few weeks ago. So People are hoping there's no connection there. But sad, Michael, you know, I knew both of them and you have the lights go out one by one, and you know, it's just you wake up and you say Well, Who's next? I mean, they've been 10 Baseball Hall of Famer since April, some big names like Tom Seaver and Whitey Ford and Bob Gibson. And I know all these people. I was just this. It really hurts. It really does. While I lost another friend over the weekend, Bob Avian, who co created a chorus line with Michael Bennett, and he choreographed Sunset Boulevard and a whole bunch of Broadway shows great guy Terrific guy on guy. He's gone now, too. So what's happened? All right. Let's welcome into the show. Jeffrey, look been the colorful defense attorney always speaks. What's on his mind? I have a new rule. Jeffrey. You wanna hear my new rule? Do I have to know? I guess I do not come on the show. So yes, of course. Yes. Good morning. Here. Here's my rule. You can't go off on your little jokes about. Biden has dementia. By needs oatmeal. Biden is cognitively impaired. I mean, you really have to come up with some new material. I just don't think that's fair. He doesn't eat oatmeal. He has oatmeal for brains, but go ahead. I don't want this. I want to straighten that out. All right. So what do you think of the administration so far, Jeff? Well, you know, I think that once you're in charge, I think all of a sudden it becomes a little harder to throw. You know, with rocks from the side, and I think Biden is learning that now The supporters are He comes in and says, Look, I've got a plan to handle this virus. I've got a plan and trump dozens, and then he comes in. And what is his plan? Where a mask for 100 days He tells us that There's nothing he can do to change the trajectory of the covert virus, which is exactly the opposite of what he told us. He was running for president. He then told us that he would have 100 million Americans vaccinated. 100 days. Well, guess what the day before he became president. 1.6 million Americans got the first jab. So he's saying things that all of a sudden don't make a lot of sense. And I think that The American public. All of a sudden is realizing well, you know Trump was a complete and utter lunatic and a disaster in so many ways, But there's a reason why Joe by and ran for president. Seemingly every election cycle since, like 1948, and never really had any traction. There's a reason and now they're starting to understand why so, look, I'm open. Giving him a shot because I think all Americans have two regardless of the party. I know that's painful, but just look, we can't just hope for the guy to fail. Because then we become in my mind. We become the far left who are actually openly rooting for Iran against America. So you know they do They do. Oh, absolutely that you don't think they do. Lend. You don't think that the far left roots for you Don't think they were pissed. When General Sulamani was assassinated. They were seriously No. Okay, well, they might wrote Well, they might not have liked the tactics, but they're not rooting for Iran to beat the United States. That's slander. Lana, Jeff, Lynne and Jeffrey, I think you're gonna agree with agree with me on this one. What they're rooting for land is for Iran to bomb the crap out of Israel because they despise Israel. Course. Well, it's not even a question about that. Maybe I'll just shoot him for the next segment, because this is just the silly stuff. But no, it's Z good stuff. One is a reason why people love this segment, and it's because I'm telling the truth,.