Sorry to go off on a tangent, but I finally listened to the 1956 Broadway
recording on "Candide." To go by Bernstein's own definition, "Candide" was
pop music in 1956, but it is now CLASSICAL music.
(BTW, I just wrapped up my second go as the Old Lady. Most successful
production in the company's history. I like to think I had something to do
with that.)
Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
We all live in a place called "23 skiddoo." --John Prine
>Lloyd quoting my hero Leonard Bernstein:
>
> >Leonard Bernstein once explained the difference between "classical"
> >music and "popular" music by saying that "classical" music was, more
> >or less, EXACT music and "popular" music was, more or less,
> >UNFINISHED music.
>
>This is a useful thumbnail definition but I personally prefer not to
>get mired in the classical/popular labelling question. My contention
>is that there is not a one to one correspondence between classical
>and closed score, or between popular and open score.
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