Geoffrey Gaskell wrote:
>I hereby nominate Rossini's "Stabat Mater" as one of the saddest of all
>musical compositions.
Sad that a great composer should think a comic opera the appropriate
format for this text?
Personally I find this one the funniest compositions. But I don't think
Giacchino intended it to be so.
Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>