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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, jane wrote:
~On hearing Malcolm Sargent (whose nickname was 'Flash') was touring Japan ~"Ah, Flash in Japan". ~When receiving effusive cards and telegrams on his birthday "What? Nothing ~from Mozart?" Oh, very good. Methinks I'll have to go and look for other Beecham quotes... "Sir Thomas, what do you think of Stockhausen?" Beecham's reply: "I trod in some once." Beecham's definitions of musical instruments: The organ: "a mechanical box of whistles" The harpsichord: "sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof", or "a birdcage played with a toasting fork" The trombone: "a sluice pump" The upright piano: "a musical growth found adhering to the walls of most semi-detached houses in the provinces" And finally my favourite: "The British don't understand music. They just like the noise it makes." -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Internet: | writing from | | Fidonet: David Rance 2:252/110 | Caversham, | | BBS: telnet://mesnil.demon.co.uk | Reading, UK | +-------------------------------------------------------+ |
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