She then mentioned how her plan to write an opera from Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was nipped in the bud when he stipulated that the orchestra must be comprised only of banjos. -- from an article on NASA artist-in-residence Laurie Anderson, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/198855_laurieq09x.html (i thought it was kazoos he was after --etb)