Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!keesan From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Leonard Bernstein wrote a rock opera? Message-ID: <557@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 12:04:19 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.557 Posted: Thu Feb 9 12:04:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:12:28 EST References: <454@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 12 ---------------------------- Rich Rosen (pyuxn!rlr), in his argument against subgroups of net.music, mentioned casually, in describing Bernstein as a "popular" composer, that he wrote a rock opera. Rich, would you (or anyone else who knows what Rich is referring to) care to elaborate on this? I'm familiar with most of Bernstein's musical output, and I can't think of anything that I would characterize as either rock or an opera. The closest I can come is his Mass, which uses some rock elements in it, but it's by no stretch of the imagination an opera. -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA