I caught a black widow

[soliloquy]

Only one of them - who shall remain nameless - has ever caught an owl and then only on one occasion; as I ruefully put it after clearing up the remains: "The Owl and the Pussycat - a Very Short Story".
Some things aren't, you know...
It's been done already - it's called (and "soliloquy" will appreciate this if no one else does) Die Lustige Witwe and it's by Bernd-Aloys Zimmermann...

Best,

Alistair

My sources indicate Dusapin is doing a little operetta re-make of that.  The working title is "Un souvenir; le hibou et le chat- Une histoire très courte".  It's going to be set in an automated treehouse that spins around and chucks the performers all over the walls like in A Nightmare on Elm Street while they prance around in fursuits.  For artistic purposes of course.  Ahhh, so esoteric.

[ahinton]

My sources indicate Dusapin is doing a little operetta re-make of that.  The working title is "Un souvenir; le hibou et le chat- Une histoire très courte".  It's going to be set in an automated treehouse that spins around and chucks the performers all over the walls like in A Nightmare on Elm Street while they prance around in fursuits.  For artistic purposes of course.  Ahhh, so esoteric.

Your sources are obviously suggestive of Pensées de Pascal of a somewhat different kind to the rather better known ones, then...(!!) That said, maybe a certain fellow-countryman and colleague of Dusapin might see this as a justification for the revival of his old desire to blow up the world's opera houses (unless, of course, he's too busy working on a Quatrième Sonate to be bothered with such comparatively trivial matters)...

Best,

Alistair

[mycrabface]

that was the MERRY widow. 

merry widow? you mean the song?

[soliloquy]

Your sources are obviously suggestive of Pensées de Pascal of a somewhat different kind to the rather better known ones, then...(!!) That said, maybe a certain fellow-countryman and colleague of Dusapin might see this as a justification for the revival of his old desire to blow up the world's opera houses (unless, of course, he's too busy working on a Quatrième Sonate to be bothered with such comparatively trivial matters)...

Best,

Alistair

He's been working on it since 1956; should only be a couple decades.  But it will assuredly be retracted four days post-premiere for revisions.  I hope Boulez gets his Vitamin C or he may never finish it   Although I would never call Boulez a colleague of Dusapin; after all, he is a student of a certain anti-colleague, now isn't he :O  Although... it's not as if Pierre has ever been known to hold grudges

[ahinton]

He's been working on it since 1956;

Really? Since before the Troisième Sonate, then?...

should only be a couple decades.

A couple of decades more in the provisional making, I assume you to mean - by which time he will be just a little older than Elliott Carter is now...

But it will assuredly be retracted four days post-premiere for revisions.

Or even sooner, perhaps...

I hope Boulez gets his Vitamin C or he may never finish it

He'll likely need abit more than just that, methinks...

Although I would never call Boulez a colleague of Dusapin;

No, I agree that I could have chosen a rather more appropriate word there.

after all, he is a student of a certain anti-colleague, now isn't he :O
Er - which one did you have in mind? Those of whom I am aware are Messiaen, Xenakis and Donatoni...

Although... it's not as if Pierre has ever been known to hold grudges

Goodness me, no! Perish the thought! (oh, I see that it has perished of its own accord [même accord?!] already)...

We seem now to have travelled a long way from the thread topic - unless the handwriting in the Quatrième Sonate so far is - er - spidery...

Best,

Alistair