Re: Enlightenment about Schubert

mike weber wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:42:12 -0400, Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:26:49 +0000 (UTC), Rob Kerr
<robert.kerr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or that old test of class -- could you listen to Rossini's overture to William Tell and not immediately think of 'The Lone Ranger'?
Usually, I listen to it from the beginning.
Same here. And usually in one of a couple of piano arrangements I have, which also distances it a bit from those thrilling days of yesteryear.

Personally, i think of Spike Jones.

I should. His 60s remake of that was on the first record I owned.

Kip W
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