How Does It Feel? - ACE056.5

Elkie Brooks recording Like a Rolling Stone. David Hockney at Glyndebourne. Commentary: "The eye – it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still. Our bodies feel, where’er they be, against or with our will." [William Wordsworth Expostulation and Reply, 1798]. Sets and props for The Magic Flute; Hockney sketching new ideas. He says "it’s good to follow the senses … to trust … intuition" but many people find this difficult. Sets being erected, etc. His VO talks about learning to draw at "a very old-fashioned art school" which was good because it made him look at things "very, very carefully". Hockney talks about wearing glasses. Glyndebourne audience picnicking. Hockney on "imaginative use of the senses". He believes that many people use drugs to give themselves a sense of adventure; those in authority who want to ban drugs don’t recognise that they get their own adventures from that activity.