Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!dep From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: discussion Message-ID: <2962@allegra.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 09:48:16 EST Article-I.D.: allegra.2962 Posted: Tue Dec 18 09:48:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:40:56 EST References: <> <61@lanierrnd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16The piece of John Cage that I like the best is "Silence" (or something like that) - n.m minutes of it. It is clearly the best thing he ever wrote. As to opera being an aquired taste - in a sense, all music is an acquired taste (except maybe for some of the more primitive grunt music) and opera can be acquired by slipping into it gently (as can modern music as well). Step one: get the angel recording of Nicolai Gedda's French Opera Arias; Step two: get some highlight recordings of Traviata, Barber of Seville, etc; Step three: listen/attend to full length performances. Where does music go when it is not being performed? The same place your lap goes when you stand up!