I'm tryin', so far without luck, to find the post that started this, 'cause
I have an opera story to tell too! Guess any poet has.
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7/53 11:56 PM, Halvard Johnson at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Yes, it's an interesting story, but doesn't it sound a bit like
> Glenn Gould redux? Well, he didn't blow up his piano(s),
> but he did give up the concerthall (I heard, as an undergrad,
> one of his relatively few public recitals) and took to the air
> waves.
>
> Hal
>
> { I like this story, Anny... I wish it would happen here! My few
> { incursions into the world of opera confirm that he is soooo right. It
> { was great when The Burrow (the first opera I did ) was first
> { performed. Mucking about in the sound studio doing samples, Michael
> { had taken a line of dialogue from the play ("shitting on us!") and
> { looped it with a funk rhyths, and when the lights came up this also
> { came up, and the audience went out to this blasting over their heads.
> { The WA Opera company wasn't very keen on us doing it, but they
> { couldn't stop us really. I liked that moment.
> { Best
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