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