tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post7739513711067738033..comments2024-03-04T09:44:11.172+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: ThreeDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-8582176405862119372008-10-08T17:38:00.000+02:002008-10-08T17:38:00.000+02:00Garth —I've thought a lot about The Third Policema...Garth —<BR/><BR/>I've thought a lot about The Third Policeman (I have a piece for orchestra with water called "DeSelby") but I always figured that bicycles on stage would be difficult. In any case, it's definitely a top candidate for a tragi-comic opera.<BR/><BR/>I don't know The Aunt's Story, it's now on my list.<BR/><BR/>As to Bernhard, isn't it another case of the heirs being cautiously — and correctly — unfaithful in executing the will? (Like Max Brod with Kafka or Dmitri Nabokov's recent decision to publish The Original of Laura).Daniel Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-86762502833158774972008-10-08T17:31:00.000+02:002008-10-08T17:31:00.000+02:001) House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski2) The Com...1) <I>House of Leaves</I> - Mark Z. Danielewski<BR/><BR/>2) <I>The Complete Works of E. E. Cummings</I><BR/><BR/>3) <I>M</I> - John CageJustin Friellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830899873767395419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-24623896842186103352008-10-08T16:22:00.000+02:002008-10-08T16:22:00.000+02:00Daniel, I don't know whether this precisely answer...Daniel, I don't know whether this precisely answers your request, but I remember that when I started out as a librettist that a classical music and literature mentor thought that some of my ideas for libretti and operas were too "middle-brow". He suggested<BR/>Brian O'Nolan's "The Third Policeman" -- which I will guess that you have either read or are aware of.<BR/><BR/>Though I had read the work, I, as a 22-year old, didn't follow his advice, but instead wrote an approved libretto on Patrick White's "The Aunt's Story" -- still, in my view, fairly difficult, if not as post-modern as most of the answers that I will guess you will receive. <BR/><BR/>(The relationship of Thomas Bernhard's estate to treatment of his works is a separate, though equally interesting, subject; in my view.)Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com