[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:15:29PM -1000, david wrote:
> On 04/03/2014 09:58 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:26:25PM -1000, david wrote:
> >>Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know, today's rock operas will be high
> >>opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly musicologists
> >>writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as musical
> >>instruments...
> >
> >Ummm, it has already been done! Tommy. :)
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who's_Tommy
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZQLXs72Lo
> 
> Thanks, only that's a musical, not an opera. ;-)

It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't Tommy continuously musical with no (or very minimal) spoken dialogue, thereby making it an opera as distinct from a musical which would have spoken dialogue interspersed with songs sung by the cast?

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