The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #144243 Message #3334345
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Apr-12 - 01:01 AM
Thread Name: Musicians have better taste
Subject: RE: Musicians have better taste
I was fascinated by one relevant item of info in the Arena programme on BBC the other night on that Renaissance-style polymath Jonathan Miller. Among his many attributes, he is one of the world's most respected directors of opera, having been invited to do stage direction by the conductor of one of our leading opera companies [he's just one of those that get invited to do things - how do some people manage that, eh!]: his Rigoletto set in a Mafia-dominated American gangster community, and his English-country-house resolutely non-Japanese The Mikado, are constantly revived, televised, &c.
But Dr Miller, I learned from the programme, cannot read music.
What lesson are we to extrapolate from that, I wonder?
~Michael~