Jon Johanning writes:

>Are you implying that "art" has to be the product of a single person? If
>so, what about opera, which not only requires a composer and librettist
>(usually different people), but everyone from a director to a scenery
>designer, ballet-master, choir director, etc., etc.  (Of course, some
>people would indeed deny the honor of the term "art" to opera, but...).

It was not my intent to imply that ART needs to originate from a singular
source to be so.  The point I am perhaps clumsily trying to make is that
the very act of collaboration amongst creative people has the potential to
result in a wide variety of outcomes.  Successful collaboration frequently
shows a collective sharing of a creative vision, sensitivity and sympatico
with the work of others which results in an outcome which may very well
result in more than the sum of its parts.

Bernard Gregoire
Hingham, MA