I've been listening to a lot of Janacek recently, and I have really come to enjoy his music and, especially, his operas. I was interested to learn from Steve's review that the composer never created these suites; unlike, say, Prokofiev's opera suites. It makes sense though, since Janacek really mastered the ability to have his vocal lines mimic Czech speech patterns. Zeke *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html