Readers Rate, Rake Music, Theater, Art and Dance : Pop Music

Readers responded with sincerity, wit and, occasionally, vehemence to our queries for their assessments of the best and worst in pop music, theater, art, classical music and dance in Orange County in 1992. Here is some of what they had to say:

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The best classical music program I attended in Orange County this year was the performance of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” by Sherrill Milnes and the Pacific Chorale. It was evident to me from the first note of the overture that I was going to experience an outstanding performance. The chorale’s sound was stunning throughout. Milnes was mesmerizing as Elijah. The women of the Valley Master Chorale sang with utter beauty in the “Lift Thine Eyes” movement. And John Alexander conducted the singers and orchestra with such sensitivity and inspiration that it lifted this listener out of her seat and into the heavens.

KATHLEEN ALLEN

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