When ideas fail, words come in very handy

Writing about the forthcoming Birmingham performance of Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones tells us:

'The opportunity to see it performed in its entirety for the first time will, therefore, become a significant landmark in the history of opera.'

Leaving aside the tortured syntax, can anyone provide an example of an insignificant landmark? Or is it a case of dream on?

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