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On Feb 6, 10:19 pm, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
Nemo <brit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
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On Feb 7, 12:35 am, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
Nemo <brit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
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The Irish comedian, Frank Carson, asserted that an intellectual is
anyone who can listen to the 'William Tell' overture without
thinking of The Lone Ranger

These days, it's someone who knows that "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is
longer than two minutes, and "Carmina Burana" is longer than a movie
trailer.

Quite!. Shortly after '2001: A Space Odyssey' was released, someone
asked me which side of the single (45RPM) 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'
was on, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

There was, I am sorry to say, a 45 RPM single version of the "ASZ"
fanfare, done by a Brazilian "musician" called Eumir Deodato, in which
the familiar music was overlaid with a wacka-wacka-scooby-dooby-shoop-
shoop backbeat. Think of a hearty bratwurst covered in pigeon excrement,
and you'll have the right idea. According to Wikipedia, this thing won a
Grammy Award in 1973. Imagine my surprise.

And it paved the way for "A Fifth of Beethoven."

Blecch! A tiny piece of bratwurst covered in dog poop! That vile thing
demonstrates the difference between the best classical music and the worst of
pop; whereas Beethoven's greatest achievement is based on development,
development, development, all this thing can do is repeat, repeat, repeat.

And in effect, the way was prepared for these atrocities by "Roll Over,
Beethoven," a celebration of the mocking of classical music.

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