tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post5226295340154387541..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Edward Ward's The Phantom of the OperaElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-77075544485477267192012-09-12T14:10:19.627-05:002012-09-12T14:10:19.627-05:00Hmm.
I remember someone mentioning that if Mozart...Hmm.<br /><br />I remember someone mentioning that if Mozart had lived, he and Chopin would probably known one another. Talk about alternate realities! We could call that movie "If They Had Lived."<br /><br />I always wondered how Mozart would have weathered the Reign of Terror, but if he were able to weather it and come out whole, imagine what his music would have sounded like! And he would have known the mature Beethoven.<br /><br />Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-86073039423974347182012-09-12T12:30:36.230-05:002012-09-12T12:30:36.230-05:00I wonder . . .
Had Chopin lived, which route woul...I wonder . . . <br />Had Chopin lived, which route would he have taken? The High Road with the Schumanns; or the higher road with the Liszts and the Wagners? There lies the real story. Now THAT would make a great movie, Chopin's opera of the Polish mythological gods!Paul Veronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060210973861680385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-81893079078689128562012-09-02T16:52:23.600-05:002012-09-02T16:52:23.600-05:00Thanks Lisa! I didn't know about this study.Thanks Lisa! I didn't know about this study.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-24648339063555092052012-09-02T15:52:31.062-05:002012-09-02T15:52:31.062-05:00Chopin wrote some songs. At least some Chopin scho...Chopin wrote some songs. At least some Chopin scholars think that he would have eventually written an opera. See, for example, <a href="http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryWestern/NineteenthCentury/?view=usa&ci=9780195338867" rel="nofollow">Jonathan Bellman's <i>Chopin's Polish Ballade</i></a>, an utterly fascinating study.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.com