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It's nice to reminisce and revel in our old polls be they very serious or a little more frivolous even. Hopefully we all learn something new. Enjoy....
27 March 2000 The obvious question is what on earth is Englishness?! That and the third most popular answer - 'Develop home-grown talent' - really smack of a wish to be unique in the world, loved for our differences and perhaps not so much of the global multi-national approach. There is a tension here of course because RB has always brought in a number of works from elsewhere and I suspect few who voted wish to see the company be totally insular and English/UK only in all things.
To back all this up it's interesting that 'Invite interesting guests' got not one vote.
19 March 2000 We but rarely see them but what an impression good conductors can leave!
As it happens Lanchbery and Fedotov are my own two favourites and who seem to have the respect of dancers, orchestra and audience. And they are so fascinating to watch at work in the pit, particularly Lanchbery who I once saw pay the lead violinist 50p immediately after a particularly good solo!
5 March 2000 Well a pretty emphatic result as far as Clement Crisp is concerned anyway - more than twice the number of votes of the nearest competition. Sad then that the Financial Times web site in its fresh new garb has seen fit to rob us of his reviews on-line. One suspects he is liked so much because of his marvelously bitchy comments at times - they must be a hard cross to bear for artists and others at times, but they are a good read I'm afraid, and more to the point usually spot on.
For the others its worth noting that the question was not which is your favourite reviewer, merely who do you most trust. Take heart then because the result may well have been entirely different if visitors were asked the more obvious question. And then again...
24 January 2000 Interesting results. I suspect that we only go on to prize Musicality and Personality after dancers have got to a given level with technique. In a way it would be nice to try reversing the question some time and ask about which poor attribute in a dancer (same list) would most detract from ones assessment of them.
I wonder what the 'other' attributes were that we missed naming?
24 January 2000 Well 44% of us want to see more dramatic ballet and dance, 29% think there is too much already and 27% think the balance is about right. I would have thought that more would have voted for mixed bills myself. AD's take note - this does not mean we all want to see lots more performances of Romeo and Juliet! (or perhaps that's another poll)
Of course what exactly constitutes full-length and dramatic ballet and dance is a bit of a movable feast in itself...
17 January 2000 What to say... very little perhaps!
The main thing to remember is that the list is not necessarily definitive (it would be a surprise if it were indeed) and it might well be that somebody else is eventually appointed.
10 January 2000 What a soft lot we are - every time we take the happy ending!
Well as a result it all makes perfect sense to me, though I would like to see the Ashton R&J back in the country again. It would be terrible for us to loose touch with it totally.
3 January 2000 Not much analysis to be done here. Contrary to what was promised none of those who voted has seen their seat prices go down in the reopened Opera House. Indeed the vast majority have only seen their costs go up. At best 1 in 4 of us have not seen our seat prices change.
Was it really meant to be the case that the most loyal fans should spend more and the corporate entertainers, and wealthy, less?
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