Christopher Webber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>audiences used to film, TV and modern theatre will not accept old
>fustian, creaky sets and scratch stagings.

But why, oh why, do they continue to accept the old music, more and more
note by note as the composer wrote it?  Shouldn't we be trench-coating
those fustian, creaky scores with cinematic cuts, electric guitars,
synthesizers, and added dissonances?

I think they should--but only if it "works." Odds are it won't, but if
directors REALLY want to be challenging and risk taking, they should go
after the music.  But they would need to take more music lessons.  Maybe
they would if theater were an aspect of opera instead of, as some believe,
the other way around.

Jeff Dunn
Alameda, CA