I too listened to Attila for the first time. It was interesting, but IMHO Verdi still had some seasoning to go before becoming VERDI.
Allen Zak On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
---At 06:48 PM 3/10/2010, Richard Knoppow wrote: > > I am reminded to the recent discontinuance of funding >for the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts by Texaco. Texaco >sponsored this for some sixty-three years until its merger >with Chevron Oil. The new management decided that the Met >broadcasts did not sell enough gasoline to pay for >sponsoring them and dropped them. What rubbish.Bunk, sir. It was a perfectly valid business decision by Chevron. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has to learn how to survive on its own merits, especially by creating endowments, something it has been lamentably hesitant to do.In any event, the opera broadcasts have survived very nicely. Caught Verdi's ATTILA the other day, one I had never before heard.Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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