Dear List:
Since traffic is so light this week (which has been the cause for concern by many, it seems), I thought I'd write something a little off-topic to singing, but I'll try and tie it in anyway.
In today's Washington Post Style Section <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52453-2001Jul25.html> is a great article about an Italian book recently published in the USA in an English translation. It's a book by an Italian who spent a few years in Washington, DC, about what it's like to live in America. The singing tie-in is that the book might be useful cultural material for singing students going to study in Italy!
Now that's out of the way, the real reason I'm writing is this delicious quote that I particularly appreciate due to my day job of professional Federal government bureaucrat:
"For Italians coming to live in the United States, the greatest satisfaction derives not from seeing films six months before they are released in Italy, or choosing from fifty different kids of breakfast cereal, or reading two kilos of newspaper on a Sunday morning. What really tickles our epiglottis is grappling with American bureaucracy. Why is that? It's because, having trained on the Italian version, we feel like a matador faced with a milk cow. It's a push-over."
Peggy
--- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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