[mythtv-users] WAY OT, was: It's over, the RIAA is toast

[Francesco Peeters]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:54:41PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>>     
>>> Well I'm listening to Wagner at the moment. Probably the most-heard
>>> composition by him as far as the general public is concerned would be
>>> the Wedding March from Lohengrin, or perhaps the "Ride of the
>>> Valkyries".
>>>       
>> I prefer the prelude to act 3, myself.  Beautiful piece of music.
>>
>>     
> I don't want to tell you what I paid for 7th row orchestra seats at  
> the Met for the entire Ring Cycle, but I'm sure you can guess.  
> Brunhilde was sung by Hildegarde Barens, who is (or was) actually a  
> practicing attorney, but with a voice that can kill.
>
> I understand she insisted on the old tradition of being paid in cash  
> at intermission. A later general manager of the Met put a stop to that  
> tradition by having a wheelbarrow full of coins brought out to a  
> nostalgic diva.
>
> Some years ago the Library of Congress noted that of all the listings  
> they had by individual name, the top of the list was Jesus Christ (not  
> too surprising).
>
> What was surprising was that number 2 on that list was Richard Wagner.  
> I would have figured Hitler or Stalin, but not Wagner.
>
> That may have been skewed a bit because a lot of Nazi material  
> referenced him in one way or another. He was supposedly Hitler's  
> favorite composer, if so it proves he had at least one thing right.
>
> beww
>   
The church organist in the church we were married at refused to play
Wagner because he was a "Nazi-composer"... Of course actually having
lived under German occupation himself, he was kind of biased...

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Francesco Peeters