Jack Beeson had an interesting comment on realism in opera a propos
of "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines," his collaboration with Sheldon
Harnick:  "...from which people go into the opera house, where things
are not as they were, and hopefully never shall be."

Aaron J. Rabushka
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