Kevin Wilson

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@monkeezgob @clairlemon Would you watch a film if it's in a foreign language?

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@YNWA9218 You obviously know fuck all about opera, mate. You must be one of those sad individuals who never watches a film if it's in a foreign language?

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@figbean @clairlemon They use surtitles in much the same way that foreign-language films use subtitles.

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@peterhickstas @dr_r_j_harley @clairlemon Opera tickets are cheaper than pop concerts.

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@clairlemon He's right. I've seen Purcell's Dido and Aeneas four times, and I'd happily see it again. I enjoyed Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but one viewing was enough.

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@musicandroots Sure. But even if Britten had never composed any vocal works, he'd still be considered a great composer.

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@musicandroots When it comes to vocal works, he's tops. Which other composer could set the English language to music like Britten? Not even Purcell could match him. And which other composer wrote as many masterpieces as he did?

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@aestheticist_ I repeat: no major post-war composer wrote pop songs, and neither would Mozart, Beethoven, or Strauss if they were composing today.

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@aestheticist_ Benjamin Britten was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and one of the greatest composers of songs and operas who ever lived.

Few people care about poetry, but that's never prevented geniuses writing it.

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@paul_jkrause The Portrait of a Lady

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@wool1111 @GarethNotGarth There are as many poets writing today as there have ever been. As long as people feel the need to express themselves and there is an audience, people will continue to write poetry.

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@wool1111 @GarethNotGarth T.S. Eliot supported himself by working at Lloyd's Bank, and Philip Larkin earned his living as a librarian in Hull. Yet, both found time to create some of the greatest poetry in the English language.

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@GarethNotGarth @wool1111 If there's no point to poetry, then there's no point to any of the arts.

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Franz Schubert
Hugo Wolf
Benjamin Britten

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@g_gosden 21% of the most educated plan to vote for a man who believes you can grow women's breasts through hypnosis.

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@ThatSalopian @ross_baglin What about songwriters who were composing before Paul McCartney was born?

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@ross_baglin Thomas Ades

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@ThatSalopian @ross_baglin That would be true—if music started in 1960 and the entire art form consisted of just three-minute pop songs.