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I'm afraid I can't really blame them. Operatic music is fine, but once those 'fat people' start wailing, I'm usually outta there too! Never had a flare for music myself though. I actually tried the trumpet many, many moons ago, but just could not master it. Then I tried guitar, both regular and bass, and they turned into nightmares as well! Oh, well. I guess some people just aren't meant to play instruments . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 26, 2013 at 6:07 AM
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its nice to have music and children that play it, do the kids of this generation get into music like they did back then? 
posted by
Lanetay
on December 25, 2013 at 7:23 AM
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TAPS
I love this post so much. I know just how you feel you so need rest but it only comes when it is in the way of all else. I agree 100%, however, I do not think you failed in not teaching them to like Opera. I have tried and tried and it bores me to tears. I love all sorts of music. I am married to a man who plays all stringed instruments except harp. I love the house blowing the windows out with Vivaldi but opera makes me remember a sow in labor. I love you, hope you get rest!
posted by
Justi
on December 25, 2013 at 4:52 AM
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when I have been to the Opera I am like Julia Roberts in "Pretty woman" I want to wet my pants....Have had some wonderful experiences...and when I was there when Pavarotti sang live at a Concert in Sydney I rang my sister and told her that I can die happy now.
Merry Christmas dear Taps.
posted by
Kabu
on December 24, 2013 at 7:28 PM
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When I expect people to arrive, I am the same wasy as well.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 24, 2013 at 6:50 PM
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TAPS
Have NOT come down to us...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 24, 2013 at 6:28 PM
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TAPS
Interesting! I have read a lot of Plato's philosophy, but don't remember that quote! Too bad that his own compositions have come down to us, if he wrote any...
Oh, and I adore opera! And the voices!!! There are some sopranos that literally send a chill down my spine...For example, the soprano solos in Orff's Carmina Burana, (which isn't an opera, of course) especially the 23rd, the Dulcissime, short as it is, is devastatingly beautiful...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 24, 2013 at 6:26 PM
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I once dated an opera buff who taught me a bit about it, and I still
appreciate them more than I would have otherwise. He had aspired to sing, but told me he just didn't have the "pipes." I heard him sing a number or two and you coulda fooled me - I thought he was very good.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 24, 2013 at 3:59 PM
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I have never cared for opera, but then, I have never heard it live.
When I am expecting people at a certain time, and they don't show up right then, right away I start wondering if no one is coming...
posted by
Ciel
on December 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM
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