[musictlk] Dealing with DVD project

[Penny Golden]

Hello.
If I were you, I would get the list of stuff you have to listen to or 
evaluate, both the sound and the theater part.
I'd get that list and I would immediately look up a good synopsis of 
the action.  At least you would be able to deal with that when it 
comes up for you.
I hope it won't be so intense a semester of projects that you won't 
enjoy the music.
I'm sure that project gutenberg has a book or two on opera 
plots.  Probably RFB or book-share has them too.
I don't know what libraries you deal with; but you can also probably 
get pretty sound descriptions of the action of the various plots by 
using wikipedia or some online thing that I don't even know about.
Best,
Penny.

At 11:30 AM 2/4/2010, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>I need inputs, ideas and suggestions. We are asked to do DVD reviews 
>for Music History subject. For instance, we are now studying Baroque 
>music and there is a DVD entitled "Tamerlino" by Handel. We are 
>asked to write every detail that we can see and listen. I am totally 
>blind, so what I can get from watching a DVD is very limited than 
>what my sighted friend gets. We have tried to work together as best 
>as we can. She is willing to tell me info that we need such as 
>title, composer, conductor, story line, etc, but that's all that she 
>can do. The opera is not sung or spoken in English. For sighted 
>people, it is not a problem since they can read the English 
>translation on the screan, but for me, it's really a problem. It's 
>impossible for me to expect her to read everything. The DVD is 
>90-120 minutes long, and we have to finish watching it in one week. 
>It's difficult to find time to watch it together because of 
>different schedule, and if we do find time,
>  again, not realistic to expect her to read everything.
>Would you give me any tips, suggestions, and things that I can do to 
>deal better with this? I will have this DVD's project from this 
>semester onwards, from Baroque to 20th century music. We will watch 
>many things, especially opera. Any suggestions?
>Any help will highly apreciated. I look forward to hearing from you 
>soon. Many thanks.
>Winy.
>
>
>
>
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