rubberwilli
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Rubberwilli... you are simply AMAZING!!!!! I have NEVER had a recomendation like this... your knowledge of classical music is UNREAL!!!! You hit it on the head with your picks that I should check out! My mother was a Madame Butterfly nut and played it all the time when I was a little boy. Bela is right up my alley too... that concert you are going to would be INCREDIBLE... why can't I live back in Chicago??? i am such a huge Shoenberg fan... the 12 tone system is the SHIT!!!!! Stravinsky? Man... are you talkin' straight to my heart... it's sooo hard to go back to the classical period after you hear Stravinsky...
You are a classical music GOD and your knowledge is WAY better than the Penguin guide... YOU ROCK Rubberwilli!!!!!!!! :biggrin1:
Thanks Tripod. I don't know that I am better than the Penguin guide...thats alot to live up to! I just know what I like, which is a little modern and a little more theatrical. I never got my degree from Indiana, but when you spend 8 years at a school of music that has it's opera program as the central teaching system, you learn alot and alot rubs off.
When I was in college I developed "the first" online web directory of Opera Houses worldwide. You can occasionally find it still in a google search, William's Wide World of Opera, though it's been down since 1998 and easily surpassed by other resources.
Maybe we could have a LPSG night at the opera here in Chicago? Chicago Opera Theater is doing the Bluebeard/Erwartung. (If you can see the new production of Nixon In China that is making it's way around the country now, do...it's amazing! Act three makes so much more sense now.) And Lyric has some great stuff in the next season as well, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Dr. Atomic and Eugene Onegin.