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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Opera may be 'arguably' the highest art form... posted by M. Lucky on November 20, 2008 at 23:22:11:
Otherwise you are saying "every thing's the same." Maybe we should "deconstruct" that. Frankly if opera was not the "highest art form"* then rock/pop/broadway would not always be trying to imitate it - and as a consequence ruin their own chance at making a unique contribution to the category of important extended (narrative) emotional experience.
We should also admit that most opera is crap, and we are enjoying maybe 10% of the operas written in the last 200 years.** But at its best Opera is a amazing mix of artificial extremes (like the Ring) and no other recent western art form has been able to make anything so satisfying.***
Gregg
*I don't believe in a highest art form.
**I believe that's the orchestral music generalization, I am not sure what it is for opera.
*** Yep, you betcha',
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- I think rather this is a case of "reverse snobbism" - gd 07:55:54 11/22/08 (0)
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