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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Klinghoffer Sock-Puppetry

I hardly ever read opera-l these days, but happened to take a look because of all the Klinghoffer opinions flying around. And what do you know, the first alphabetic posting is by our friend "Genevieve Castle Room," and it cites something a lot like what I found on my blog the other day:
  • GCR quotes "John Blackburn on Twitter": "Sad that Adams is held in such esteem. Musically bland pabulum spiced withprogrammatic narrative. By programmatic narrative, I mean his fondness for political libretti and such—cover for light musical thought"
  • "Carrie Theuring" on my blog: "It's sad that Adams is held in such esteem. Musically bland pabulum spiced with programmatic narrative."
Update: John Blackburn is real. I'll assume that "Carrie Theuring" is one of many pseudonyms used by "Genevieve Castle Room," so "Carrie" is the sock puppet here, quoting Blackburn without attribution.
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 21, 2014 at 3:56:00 PM PDT

    Lisa,

    For the record:

    I have no idea who "Carrie Theuring" is or what she does.

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  2. Lisa HirschOctober 21, 2014 at 4:16:00 PM PDT

    How strange.

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  3. ChanterelleOctober 21, 2014 at 4:53:00 PM PDT

    Point to Iron Tongue.

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  4. Mark BerryOctober 22, 2014 at 4:16:00 AM PDT

    It's just one of those strange coincidences - like the identical e-mailed questions from Jacinto Fernandez, Genevieve Castle Room, Seine Frau, and the rest of the Pelleastrian gang. Why must some of us be so cynical?

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  5. Lisa HirschOctober 22, 2014 at 8:41:00 AM PDT

    I've received an irrelevant comment from Genevieve, which I'm not going to publish, because it's irrelevant.

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