johnny come lately
. . . much to our dismay, we caught a glimpse of high-C-flaunting Juan Diego Florez coming out of the Juilliard School’s Meredith Wilson Residence Hall with fiance Julia Trappe in tow at around, oh, 1pm. That’s like 30 minutes before curtain!
Little sister Counter Critic goes to the movies and gets a surprise preview. And read on after the most recent post, because Counter Critic sink their teeth into Bernard Holland and others of his banana-eared ilk.
Hey, C.K. It’s not that I hate Bel Canto, per se, but I’m not as convinced by it generally, as say, other kinds of opera. Like I said, I really enjoyed “La Fille”, although perhaps this particular production (with the updated book) had something to do with that.
I also didn’t intend to imply that Bel Canto operas are never studied in music schools. Coming from the perspective of a composer, these operas are simply not given the same attention as other operas in the repertoire in music scholarship. It was true for the schools I went to. Doesn’t make them inherently bad, but musically, there just isn’t as much to sink one’s teeth into, at least, from a primarily analytical perspective. Although, I think there is a trend growing to revisit these works.
Perhaps I could have been more cool headed about my assessment. But what fun is that, really?
Well.
Counter Critic wrote: “Perhaps I could have been more cool headed about my assessment. But what fun is that, really?”
The fun in being more cool-headed is that you don’t come across quite so sophomorically. If you’re not interested in people taking you seriously, then by all means, shoot from the hip as often as you wish: consequences be damned. If, on the other hand, you wish your words to be taken with more than a grain of salt and perhaps even to spur further discussion, then perhaps “cool headed” assessments might serve you better.
Abandoning all reason, you could always resort to reporting on Cheryl Studer’s recent recital activities. That seems to get Marshie lots of attention.
Dear Counter Critic. If you disregard logic in your approach, you disregard honesty- because men are wont to exaggerate and become inaccurate when in the throes of one passion or another. It is a matter of journalistic, or at least editorial, principle.
I could be a critic tomorrow; it’s a matter of color and tessitura