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To: Gauguin who wrote (7044)	2/8/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Paul, Oh, I wished that you were there! I really did! I thought, Damn! Paul would love this. It was all spectacle and fairy tale. And arias that are like angels caressing your ears. Do you know what is absolutely the most incredible thing to me? That people study years and years and years to write and sing and play and conduct this music and there is this incandescent, transient moment when it all comes together and something happens between the artist and a composer long dead and the orchestra and the audience and they are all united -oh so very briefly!-- on a plane above that of normal existence. Do I sound a bit delusional? It does happen, not often. For a performer, like an athlete, it's being in the zone. When you are more than yourself, more than what you do. It doesn't matter at all what training or education or experience you bring to opera. For some it just is, it just happens. And last night I kept thinking about you because I think you are one of those people who would understand the glory of it. Excuse my flight into fatuousness.