| Alistair 2006-06-06, 7:55 am |
|
Chuck Stevens wrote:
> "Alistair" <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1149439425.344823.96300@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> How can music be uplifting if it doesn't *do* anything? ;-)
>
>
> Well, if you know going in that there are basically only two singers in it,
> and that it's intended for minimalist staging, it's a pretty neat piece. I
> do agree it'd be pretty deadly on TV, but I think it's got something to
> offer seen live. Here's a case, too, where hearing it in the original
> language is an important part of the experience, as is the spoken prologue
> (rarely done any more). More listenable than most Alban Berg, anyway.
What spoken prologue? All I can recall is a lot of bits that should
have been spoken but were sung. I hate speech that is sung; much better
to have a rousing belter of a song with vocab spoken as links. It was
on tv and it was sh*te.
>
> -Chuck Stevens
|