| Date sent: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:05:43 EST Subject: Re: Jerome Hines and "Modern" Music/Art To: vocalist Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
In a message dated 12/20/99 3:00:12 PM Central Standard Time, honzen-at-yahoo.com writes:
<< Most frequently performed operatic works are (with some exceptions) from the 17 or 1800's and are tonal with a linear storyline. This is also what seems most popular with audiences. >>
Oddly, this is not true for movies (far more popular than opera sad to say) where flashbacks and non-linear stories seem to rule. Also only a very few of the thousand(s)or so operas composed at that time are still popular.
anyway....
Dr. Fried,
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