explanation of composer FAIL #21 part 2

I think I may have calmed down a bit from this particular composer FAIL that now I may write about it. (Or, maybe I finally have the time to constructively write about it and share it with my tens of readers.)

To recap, the main reason why this grant was rejected was because the committee didn't believe I had hard evidence of how I would complete my "double-helix" concept in my future opera. (Did I have hard evidence of this? No, but that's because I would like to have funding discovering this double-helix concept. Spending time to work on this would be a little more beneficial than...working McMicken Ave.)

There are other reasons.

One musicologist committee member was a little concerned about the genre of opera I was going to write. This person proclaimed that comic opera is such a genre - Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini all wrote amazing comic operas. Am I competent for the challenge? How does the committee know it's going to be a success? How do they know it will be funny?

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Um...how …