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,

and check my updated web page for more composition info.

PHILIP
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