To all those who asked - both on the blog and in multiple emails - yes I will get the book done! Its a monastic environment here. I have two not so good television channels, an hours travel to get to the centre of Singapore, one excellent swimming pool and steep hill to climb every morning to the faculty. So I have little alternative but to crack on with writing! I did purchase a set of speakers to go with the iPod on the grounds that my thesis was written to Wagner with the result that a leitmotif produces a pavlovian writing response - and I have three different versions of the Ring to provide variety…..
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I've also found Verdi to be very good, especially if you wantr to inject some human emotion into the high drama. Otello is particularly good :)
Posted by Patrick Lambe | July 29, 2006 6:47 AM
Posted on July 29, 2006 06:47
Good point although Nabbuco is good for bringing a tear to the eye - however no one better expresses human emotion than Wagner followed by Puccini and Verdi with some of the moderns (Birtwistle, Adams) outstanding as well. Mozart to my mind comes somewhere further down the scale of things - the place occupied by England and to a lesser extent Australia in the pantheon of who one wants to loose at Rugby ...
Posted by Dave Snowden | July 29, 2006 7:02 AM
Posted on July 29, 2006 07:02