David Yearsley, a Cornell University professor, is the latest in a long line of people who hate our city without ever really coming here to see if they actually hate it (and, by extension, us) or if they just think they do. Fortunately, someone gave him a forum:
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to hear a performance of Così fan tutte next year in the Dallas Opera’s inaugural season in their new house. But I can think of few worse things than making my way through the encircling blight to this Jerusalem of the Arts shining on the benighted concrete prairie.
His entire argument is built on press releases, a few clicks of Google Street View, and plenty of tired old saws (i.e. “big-haired ladies and their Stetson-topped men snooze more easily through Lohengrin after having driven in for the evening in their patriotic gas hogs”). In other words, a giant, steaming pile of B.S. There are legitimate points to make and arguments to have, but he’s too stuck up to bother with any of that.
Please never visit, sir.
(H/T: Unfair Park)
