On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
One of the most egregious examples of this kind of thing is the practice of playing recorded music before performances of live music in some venues.
Again, nothing new. Consider the "first music" and "second music" played (live, of course) *before the overture* in 17th-c. English theaters. Music was also played during intermission--all over Europe. That is how comic opera started, in fact.
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