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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Introduction to the Opera
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 13:47:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 13:47:42 1984
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Chuq Von Rospach writes:

>I have tried to get interested in opera a couple of times with little success,
>but I have discovered light opera, especially the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.
>Pirates of Penzance happens to be a wonderful piece of music. Question of the
>day would have to be whether or not it belongs in net.music.classical... :->

Most of us agree the the term classical music for the sake of
net.music.classical should be defined loosely.  It is up
to the each contibutor to make his/her judgment what is suitable
for posting.  I don't think anyone should be apologetic,
concerning his/her definition of classical music.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
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