Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>I've just bought a CD of overtures by JPE Hartmann.  It contains a work
>called The Golden Horns which uses a speaker.  It's a form I find very
>annoying.

I would offer a word of agreement and mention another work, Stravinsky's
"L'Histoire du Soldat," the narration of which causes me to fidget.  In
my case the fidgeting was eased by buying an English language performance
that's well done.  Now the French version languishes on the shelf and the
narrator doesn't trouble me.

Is it the unstimulating aspect of the verbal message that's giving offense,
or is it the form? Cordially,

Harry Davis
Houston
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