And I was in the audience for one of those performances, and can't
say that all the trouble was actually worth it!!! Definitely not a
composer for the masses (I'm tempted to say definitely not a
composer, but that would be unkind), but hey, he married a gorgeous
woman with a breathtaking mezzo voice. (Like other opera composers
we could mention!)
John
At 12:15 PM -0500 2/25/08, Williams, Jim wrote:
Gee~
I was on the stage crew for a couple of those, especially Heracles,
IIRC (at least for the destruction of the sets). Between the
rehearsal pianos tuned flat (some of 'em anyway) and a set of
confused singers who were making it up as they went along, and the
flat winds...what a circus!
The stage crew that eventually destroyed those sets did so with a
vengeance I had never seen before and haven't seen since.
Jim
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Subject: Re: [Finale] what does a copyist do? now scordatura
Well, there were the quarter-tone-flat-to-A-440 woodwinds in John Eaton's
operas years ago...
ajr
On 25 Feb 2008 at 1:13, Ray Horton wrote:
As far as scordatura for winds
That phrase makes my head hurt.
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