From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 10/2/25 3:02 PM, 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.   
      
   Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo each took up a couple   
   of classes. Dido and Aeneas is pretty silly; some fake gods intimidate   
   Aeneas and tell him he has to abandon Dido and found Rome. The   
   professor's favorite line was "And let forsaken Dido die," which could   
   almost fit into a square dance call.   
      
      
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   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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