As an elementary student in Maryland, we went to the National Symphony Orchestra every year at the Kennedy Center. Later my father did the marketing for the orchestra. Lots of memories.
I've been to one of the smaller concert venues about five years ago; loved it. My goal is to attend one of the Kennedy Center Honors -- preferably when they honor Audra McDonald; she's performed for so many of the honors, but winning six Tony Awards (and possibly a seventh this season!) she will hopefully be honored in the next decade or so. Just need to find a way onto the lucky list of people that get to attend!
The arts are truly to mark of a great and powerful society as; often is the case many times to music, art, and theater of a civilization outlives the nation that created it.
@@pohkeee Why would ornate architecture be considered pompous? And that’s a far cry from the ugly Kennedy Center that does look like a tissue box. Have you visited any of the great opera houses of the world? Have you ever sat in Carnegie Hall? Music both sounds and “looks” better in these venues than sitting in a cardboard box with a blank canvas backdrop.
Nice place. The art of dying ought to be remembered so that Varanasi, or Jerusalem, or Hong Kong, or Rome, or whoever . . . could be honored . . . (say like, Ravi Shankar or ballet or whistler's mothers).
It’s interesting that for such a Democratic president they would chose such Fascist looking architecture, Mussolini would have loved this building and plopping it down in 1940s Italy it would fit right in. Look at the Plazzo dei Congressi for example. Of course Lincoln Center has a bit of this too, but somehow comes off as a bit less sterile, white and austere.
Look at Lincoln Center (not named after Abraham Lincoln) in New York, which includes the Met Opera House, etc. It's dated, tacky by today's standards, as was a good deal of architecture of that period, and that unfortunately includes the Kennedy Center.
A great President. One fine institution.
As an elementary student in Maryland, we went to the National Symphony Orchestra every year at the Kennedy Center. Later my father did the marketing for the orchestra. Lots of memories.
I've been to one of the smaller concert venues about five years ago; loved it. My goal is to attend one of the Kennedy Center Honors -- preferably when they honor Audra McDonald; she's performed for so many of the honors, but winning six Tony Awards (and possibly a seventh this season!) she will hopefully be honored in the next decade or so. Just need to find a way onto the lucky list of people that get to attend!
Retired 10 years now back home in Indiana. I really miss going to events here. It was special every time.
I was born when the Kennedy Center opened. I look forward to seeing how Gladys Knight is honored this year. I am a big fan of her music.
“Oh, he's leavin' (leavin')
On the midnight train to Georgia!”
Rose looks a lot like her grandmother
Okay, Rose Kennedy looks a LOT like Jackie. Its uncanny.
Saw the the play "Shear Madness" on a school trip there in '89. Great venue. Some polaroid of me with Kennedy's bust somewhere....
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
The arts are truly to mark of a great and powerful society as; often is the case many times to music, art, and theater of a civilization outlives the nation that created it.
Bob Weir just played there! 💀⚡️ 🌹
Always catches my eye the Saudi Embassy next to the Kennedy Center , I have worked there for years.
We nicknamed it "The Tissue Box"
Uninspired architecture. For sure.
@@florinest: art deserves a blank canvas as a backdrop. It’s far better than an ornate and pompous wet blanket 🤨
@@pohkeee
Why would ornate architecture be considered pompous? And that’s a far cry from the ugly Kennedy Center that does look like a tissue box.
Have you visited any of the great opera houses of the world? Have you ever sat in Carnegie Hall? Music both sounds and “looks” better in these venues than sitting in a cardboard box with a blank canvas backdrop.
As someone who lived in DC, I always feel that the Kennedy Center is cut off from the city.
The highways surrounding the Kennedy Center, especially the one running along the water, are such a blight. Bad American land use summed up.
Cultural bigotry that blights our nation’s cities so many of our highways are…
Nice place. The art of dying ought to be remembered so that Varanasi, or Jerusalem, or Hong Kong, or Rome, or whoever . . . could be honored . . . (say like, Ravi Shankar or ballet or whistler's mothers).
It’s interesting that for such a Democratic president they would chose such Fascist looking architecture, Mussolini would have loved this building and plopping it down in 1940s Italy it would fit right in. Look at the Plazzo dei Congressi for example. Of course Lincoln Center has a bit of this too, but somehow comes off as a bit less sterile, white and austere.
Look at Lincoln Center (not named after Abraham Lincoln) in New York, which includes the Met Opera House, etc. It's dated, tacky by today's standards, as was a good deal of architecture of that period, and that unfortunately includes the Kennedy Center.
I’ll alert the media.
Что это делает у меня в реках?
Not your river fool!
Thin gruel. This mini-piece could have been more interesting. A lot more interesting.
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