No better commentator on the arts, in all their range, than John Tusa. He has such a sense of what is really going on, happening, in an individual work/performance and in a field. Such intelligence, experience, candor, and wit. The more we hear from '"Annie" the better. I laughed as I read her comments about "Phyllis," though it took me a bit of a while to grasp that "Phyllis" is the "P" in PD James. His analysis of the "vital senses" of the good "arts leader" is acute, especially the 7th sense, "the sense of danger." Danger in a work, danger bearing down on an institution. How could the BBC "air-brush" John Tusa out of the history of the program "Newsnight" in particular and the BBC in general. Not even a hurricane can "air brush" this man away, thank the gods and goddesses.
No better commentator on the arts, in all their range, than John Tusa. He has such a sense of what is really going on, happening, in an individual work/performance and in a field. Such intelligence, experience, candor, and wit. The more we hear from '"Annie" the better. I laughed as I read her comments about "Phyllis," though it took me a bit of a while to grasp that "Phyllis" is the "P" in PD James. His analysis of the "vital senses" of the good "arts leader" is acute, especially the 7th sense, "the sense of danger." Danger in a work, danger bearing down on an institution. How could the BBC "air-brush" John Tusa out of the history of the program "Newsnight" in particular and the BBC in general. Not even a hurricane can "air brush" this man away, thank the gods and goddesses.
Kate Stimpson