Don Satz:
>Two items strike me as a little odd about the PBS Composer series. A
>segment is devoted to Puccini who is hardly ever mentioned on the list.
>Do we dislike his music that much?
Well. Puccini was an opera composer and, as has been mentioned lately,
there is not much enthusiasm for opera on this list, to my regret. [Surely
OPERA-L is enough for any opera lover. -Dave] But Puccini seems to suffer
a special fate: his work is so popular and tuneful that many CM buffs turn
up their noses at it. At present I don't feel I want to hear or see Boheme
or Tosca for quite a good while - but he was a superb craftsman, no doubt
about it,IMHO. I particularly admire the parlando passages in some of his
operas - the chit-chat among the Bohemians, for example.
Julia Werthimer <[log in to unmask]>
California, USA