The Little Blueprint? – an amplification of the meaning of ‘libretto’
A lyricist once couldn’t help himself when he heard someone whistling a Tom Jones hit. ‘I wrote the words,’ he boasted. Annoyed at being interrupted, the whistler said, through clenched teeth, ‘I wasn’t…whistling…the words.’ Does this sum up the problem for lyricists, and by extension librettists? Should we expect people to pay more attention to […]