Eric Willstaedt wrote:
>[This "ultra-conservative" moderator (my friends would get a kick out
>of that ludicrous characterization) would love to see some discussion
>on how this so-called "opera" has anything to do with classical music.
>-Dave]
In the same sense that a discussion of Beaumarchais ought to occur in
a class devoted to characterisation in opera - as an insight into the
dramatist who has been linked with one of the most influential opera
composers of his generation.
It would also be fair game, with a bit of explanation, to try and draw
paralells between the montage form of narrative common in Wilson's work
with its equivelants in musical structure from the same period.
Stirling S Newberry
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