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Re: Ned Rorem Speaks
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John Smyth <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:11:51 -0700
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Who is more important, the composer or the performer?

Please, someone answer!  Give me a sign from above!  Anything!

(I'll quote from the end of Strauss' final opera, "Capriccio," where poetry
and music compete for supremacy):

"Your dinner is served."

(....diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle dum dum, diddle diddle diddle
diddle dum dum.)

John Smyth

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