On 04/04/2014 12:50 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
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. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_(album)
'... Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock
opera.'
*AND* he played pinball! Although, perhaps, not as an instrument. :)
I think they used pinball machine sounds as part of things. Have any
musicologists turned their scholarly eyes in the direction of "Tommy"?
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