Copland's advice to American composers was not ideological; it was simply to ask them to try to be communicative to listeners by using musical effects derived from hundreds of years of musical tradition, to use evolutionary means rather than revolutionary ones.
It's simply to ask the public where they feel we've gone wrong, whether our policies are wrong, whether the sites are wrong, and whether our number is wrong.
Almost every night I put on some sort of show, even if it's simply to ask Isaac if Santa Claus brought him the shirt he is sleeping in, to proclaim that I am wetting the bed followed by maniacal laughter (I didn't actually wet the bed), or to yell at him to not spill any salsa in the sheets (he never eats salsa in bed).
The first is simply to ask us what it is.
So for us, the first step is simply to ask.
When restaurateur, school governor and School Food Plan co-author Henry Dimbleby tweeted last year that "the trick" to getting parents to claim free school meals was simply "to ask them", it provoked pained expressions from heads and school business managers who had been trying to do exactly that.
Time was, across the Arab world, that it was simply rude to ask people their religion or sect, even if it was obvious from their name, their accent, from where they lived or worshipped or the pictures on their walls that they were a Sunni Muslim, Shia, or Christian.
The difference, in my view is that theater usually acknowledges that it is simply asking questions while religion tends to claim it knows the answers.
A. Part of it is simply asking them about what motivates them.
It is simply a useless practice to ask a parent, who may be completely new to the facility and the city, if there is anything that they need.
