Steven Schwartz wrote: >Everything you've said could be applied equally to bel canto opera. >Of course, we don't discuss that here, either. Perhaps it's not Really >Classical Music after all. The "standing up on its own" criterion is >a red herring. They're not meant to stand up on their own, any more >than Mendelssohn's complete Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music is. >Mendelssohn made a suite, just as Herrmann, Rozsa, Honegger, Milhaud, >Shostakovich, Walton, Thomson, Copland, and Prokofiev did. Now tell me >why these guys didn't write classical music. Korngold could have done this. I mention it because I remember his biographer, Brendan Carroll (I think that ws his name), writing that when you consider Korngold's movies scores as a whole, they were in many ways, long tone poems. That's the way I have always thought of them, but there was really something operatic about Kings Row. Roger Hecht