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  On 7/24/2020 at 4:33 AM, AdamSmith said:

Is it art compared with the above and their like?

We will soon be admiring Willy Wonka.

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  On 7/24/2020 at 4:33 AM, AdamSmith said:

Is it art compared with the above and their like?

We will soon be admiring Willy Wonka.

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The Wizard of Oz and R & H musicals, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel.

 

Life lessons about bravery, spouse abuse and racial discrimination. Universal themes.

Frankly, I am not surprised you would compare The Wizard of Oz with Willy Wonka. Sad.

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  On 7/24/2020 at 5:44 AM, Buddy2 said:

 

The Wizard of Oz and R & H musicals, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel.

 

Life lessons about bravery, spouse abuse and racial discrimination. Universal themes.

Frankly, I am not surprised you would compare The Wizard of Oz with Willy Wonka. Sad.

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I love The Wiz etc.

But for Christ’s sake. To say stage/screen musicals are on the same level as Dostoevsky et al. as works of art...

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  On 7/24/2020 at 6:43 AM, AdamSmith said:

I love The Wiz etc.

But for Christ’s sake. To say stage/screen musicals are on the same level as Dostoevsky et al. as works of art...

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You keep contradicting yourself. I like and appreciate Dostoevsky as much as you.

You compared "The Wizard of Oz" to "Willy Wonka." Now you love "The Wizard of Oz."

 

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  On 7/24/2020 at 4:18 PM, Buddy2 said:

R & H invented the American musical. That is, lyrics and music that add to the story.

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My beef is that American musicals take very fine story lines but them set them to the most schlock music.

The direct inverse of what, say, Italian opera does. ^_^

For which one can of course also complain.

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  On 7/26/2020 at 3:18 AM, AdamSmith said:

My beef is that American musicals take very fine story lines but them set them to the most schlock music.

The direct inverse of what, say, Italian opera does. ^_^

For which one can of course also complain.

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Interesting that one thinks Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne  composed second rate music.

Perhaps Cole Porter  George Gershwin   were  second rate too.

Gershwin told Merman to never take a singing lesson.

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  On 7/26/2020 at 4:19 AM, Buddy2 said:

Interesting that one thinks Richard Rogers, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne  composed second rate music.

Perhaps Cole Porter  George Gershwin   were  second rate too.

Gershwin told Merman to never take a singing lesson.

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Well, if you think they hold up against Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Bellini, et al., then good for you.

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  On 7/26/2020 at 7:00 AM, AdamSmith said:

Well, if you think they hold up against Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Bellini, et al., then good for you.

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Opera isn't new, around for centuries.

 

The Broadway musical is relatively new..

Showboat and Oklahoma

Broadway performer are far better actors/actresses

And I enjoy opera too in New York, Chicago, Vienna, Munich, Paris, Prague and Sydney

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  On 7/27/2020 at 6:49 AM, Buddy2 said:

Adam, your friend, Liam, has started Organ 2 on the other site,  a companion to his other thread Organ 1.

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This epochal event which will overturn the known universe has me up in arms.

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  On 7/27/2020 at 3:02 PM, AdamSmith said:

Because life is nothing without a little comic relief? :rolleyes:

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You could have spoken up about Larstrup/Liam but did not to save threads about the organ (and other names for the organ thread). Now Liam is posting on the other site.

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  On 7/29/2020 at 7:26 PM, Buddy2 said:

You could have spoken up about Larstrup/Liam but did not to save threads about the organ (and other names for the organ thread). Now Liam is posting on the other site.

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This comment is not comprehensible to me.

And what happens on the other site is of utter disinterest.

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  On 7/30/2020 at 4:42 AM, Buddy2 said:

But, you still have friends at the other site where you were well liked my many people, including me.

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Come over here then and let us continue interacting.

The snake venom over there became too much.

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  On 7/30/2020 at 5:43 AM, AdamSmith said:

Come over here then and let us continue interacting.

The snake venom over there became too much.

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Not everyone wants to constantly read complaining  about "snake venom over there."

 

Try to move on to Oz, the read hero as a site owner.

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