The only Opera I ever walked out of was Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, the noise of it drove me out. I like dissonance when it leads to something...
Also, how are you dating the CPT period? What composer marks the beginning and which composer the end of this period you seem to be limiting the use...
Uh uh uh, no. Now you're setting arbitrary delineations between this skill set and that one to benefit your own view. No. So you are actually saying...
Bruckner's 9th. And I would have burned all sketches of the 4th movement, and told people: "Here is my ninth. It is in three movements and ends in an...