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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gauguin who wrote (7084)	2/8/1998 4:06:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I know-sometimes I feel really stupid writing about opera or music or poetry-but there are enough people here who either feel the same or are just too damn nice to tell me to my face I'm weird. I've been lucky enough to sing the 9th with the Dallas Symphony Chorus-and it was--sublime. I have a book by J.W.N. Sullivan (now, really, what kind of man would use three initials as his first name?)about the spiritual development of Beethoven that says the choral movement of the 9th was an "inadequate culmination of the spiritual process portrayed in the first three movements"...that he misses achieving the "ultimately sublime". He obviously has never sung the 3000 high B's required of the soprano line. You either die or reach nirvana. But really---he calls it a failure. Wow.