From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10bmi8o$gml$1@panix2.panix.com>,   
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >>When I went to MIT, there was a humanities requirement, but it was   
   >>rather minimal. The freshman year there was something called "Conflict   
   >>and Community in America," which consisted of rather unfocused   
   >>discussions of recent books. After that I took mostly music courses when   
   >>I could. The one-semester course on opera crammed the entire nineteenth   
   >>century into the last day.   
   >   
   >Well, I like Purcell and Monteverdi myself but it didn't get crazy and   
   >silly for quite some time after that.  And what I like about opera is   
   >mostly the craziness and silliness.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   Dorothy used to remark that a typical opera scenario is when a   
   man and woman spend the night together in bed and he doesn't   
   recognize her the next day because she's wearing a different   
   outfit.   
      
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