What the SATs should look like

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Opera is to classical what show tunes are to jazz .

Which is to say operas are—excepting a few lyrical standouts and moments of pure musicianship like Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen—an abomination barely preferable to listening to a first year oboe student do scales.

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Guy F

Re: What the SATs should look like

of course that would also infer that Jazz i snothing more the a money grind marketed to a broad spectum audiance and -thus- hardly palettable to the ear.

can you say Oklahoma is to Rhapsody in Blue what a bandsaw is to _____?

By Guy F on 26 November 2009 · 00:06
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