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]>