<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>President</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Monday, December 16, 2013 5:04 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Jeffrey Epstein</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re:</td></tr></table>

Try the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as well.
Opera has always attracted a low brow audience, unfairly. But it is indeed =n acquired taste.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: "President" <blackened out>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:01:07 AM
Subject: Re:

underst000d but they would have been as happy singing a disney movie. I am =iased greatly in your favor , though you might not belive it. I pay great =ttention to things that i disagree with, as i view it as a path to learnin=. I have sent out inquires regarding mahler youth orchestra to guage where=it is ,has been etc. I did not enjoy the cage performances but conceded th=ir quality of intellect. and thought a good idea, can't get there on opera=

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:49 AM, President

wrote:

So you are partly wrong. You stayed only for part. And too tell you the tru=h for many on the stage it did exactly what you say. In the audience it ca= never be a mass you change in 2000 people with classical music, but a min=rity of individuals. And there were many who would disagree.

But I do not dispute that the connection to the audience should have been d=fferent---and the ideal circumstance would have permitted some props and c=stumes and super titles. It si an opera after all.

So get the point, but the analogy does not quite fit. You have some point--=ince that is what you saw and felt and I can't dispute that. But there wer= others--and not friends--for whom the performance did something important= The difference is that not enough and the audience needs to be different.=You know who came up to me in droves afterwards to say that it was the hig= point of their lives--the girls in the children's chorus--who were blown =way by the beauty of the music and the story and the quality of what happe=ed.

Original Message-----

From: "Jeffrey Epstein" <ieevacation@gmail.com>
To: "President"
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 8:39:18 AM
Subject: Re:

In the 60s in hyde park there was speakers corner, when someone thought the= had something important to say and truly blieved they were on the right s=de of history god. the argument, they got on a box , did their thing , and=some in the crowd, appluded, slept. walked away, are were inspired to get =n a box next weekend. I personally think the performance needs to change t=e lives ,thinkning of some in the crowd. new insights, new illumination. ,=forever changed. at least for a week or so. yesterdays, performnace , had =o redeening quality, none. it was joke telling in a foreign language. wher= the teller found it hysterical and his audience just stared blankly, even=a bakers hat. key on the mayor. a smile on the girlfriends. . it was as a =ehearsal for a recording, suits and ties. a black man singing german out o= the side of his mouth , in mimicking porgy and bess. the triangle was the=only alive thing in the hall.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:29 AM, President < president@bard.edu > wrote:

You should not worry about this aspect.Never trust anyone who is not emotio=ally tied to what they have spent their life working on. It is perhaps dif=erent in business, since the object is money or the winning of a competiti=e sport. Making music is different--it is a deep experience that exposes v=lnerability in real space and time--one that involves emotional risks that=most people do not take, at least for me. There are artists who have detac=ment, for whom making music is just a job. It is not that way for me. And = am asking for help on the brink of a great chance to make the kind of dif=erence that would have a fighting chance to solve the problem we both see-=so I am anxious. You'll see much greater equanimity if I have a fighting c=ance.

So the problem is mine, and, all things considered, I take criticism well, =s well as anyone can for whom what does is more than a game--and I am depe=dent on others even on the stage. So hand out the real opinions, even thou=h I cannot promise you lack of comfort. And the hurt passes quickly. My se=ond child was killed when she was 8, so you can't really hurt me, so have =o fear. By being brutally honest--using your word--you invoke, in the very=use of language an image of harshness and pain. So in some cases expect th= worst. Do not trust anyone who takes it lightly in matters of such power.=And of course I am in a position in which I need your trust and support. A=d I am rattled, as well albeit temporarily, because I really like and resp=ct you.

As to Strauss, he just thought he was better than everyone else in the fief= of music and he needed no one. In secret however, he took every critic se=iously and suffered with them, even though he never showed it publicly.

See you this week.

Leon

Original Message
From: "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com >
To: "President" < president@bard.edu >
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:03:58 AM
Subject: Re:

you definitely have something to say and a point of view. I feel uncomforta=le tellin you what I really think. i don't like that. I myself prefer brut=l honesty . chats how i learn. otherwise i like you can argue myself into =elieving my own bullshit. I recoginze the effort that went into yesterdays=performance. and couldn't help smile when you talked about strauss disdain=for views other than the ones he held

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:40 PM, President < president@bard.edu > wrote:

I know and appreciate it. I think what I propose will create a new circumst=nce that addresses your concern. See you this week.

Leon

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On Dec 15, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com > wrot=:

I can only be me.

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