Klarinet Archive - Posting 000819.txt from 2004/03

From: ormondtoby@------.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Opera instrumental music and film music, especially use
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:53:23 -0500

Patricia Smith wrote:

> though I LOVE the melodramatic, almost
> soap-operatic story lines!

When I was a spear carrier once, I said something of this sort (about
melodrama) to the leading man. His response made sense to me:

"Of course operatic plots are intense. Opera is about the most
important event of the character's life. Would you expect less?"

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