All surmises to the contrary, I have not died...

[estellacat]

...I've merely been away visiting some relatives and have been fairly tired since my return. Some quick points of interest in my life of the past several days:

- I finished Sophie Wahnich's La liberté ou la mort : essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme - admittedly, not a very impressive feat, since it's scarcely more than a hundred pages, though

Comments

[polypragmosyne]

The Pursuit of Glory seems one of those books I read mumbling (loudly, if possible) and doing faces...

I don't like a lot Puccini, but you got me bitten about Méhul :)

[estellacat]

If I had the willpower to actually read such a book, I'm sure I would do much the same.

I'm not particularly fond of Puccini either; I think he's vastly overrated. With Méhul it's the opposite problem: I can only find three different operas of his for which there are recordings (and one of them was made in the era when people sang opera in their native language, which is, unfortunately, German in this case D:)!

[polypragmosyne]

And the money- don't forget the money. Why pay them? The libraries are a better solution.

I don't particularly like XIX century music... compared to the previous centuries', above all. And ouch. only three?

[estellacat]

That's very true. And I suppose the other upside is, if you check this kind of book out of the library, you can prevent other people from reading it, for a while, at least.

I agree: Classical and Baroque music is much better. Yes, unfortunately--what I really want is a recording of the Méhul opera commissioned by the Convention, but nobody's made one. >.>

[polypragmosyne]

Very good point here. It's preventing the idle reader (not the informed one) from stumbling around a thesis and adopting it because he or she is not informed.

Oh, no! (Okay, that smells of the usual treatment anything related to the argument is getting...)

[estellacat]

Yes, though it's unfortunately only a temporary solution.

(You're right, there's obviously a reason no one's recorded it...)