From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   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.   
   --scott   
      
      
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