Mitch Friedfeld:

>The program notes said that Baby Doe was one of the three most significant
>American operas, with Porgy and Bess and I can't remember the third.  My
>program notes seem to have disappeared; you'd think I'd know the third but
>I've forgotten.  Anyway, listmembers who are interested in tonal but
>different opera with a lot of catchy tunes will like Baby Doe, I'm sure.

Copland: The Tender Land?
Thomson: The Mother of Us All?
Menotti: The Saint of Bleeker Street?
Ward: The Crucible?
Harbison: Danton's Death?
Adams: Death of Klinghofer?
Previn: A Streetcar Named Desire? (just kidding)

Love Baby Doe!  I also like Horace Tabor's aria that soars at the end on
the words "Baby Doe!" Grand Stuff.

Steve Schwartz