Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 1997/04

From: Lord Rob <rteitelbaum@-----.EDU>
Subj: RE: Music, performance, and marching bands
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:17:18 -0400

>Maybe the "Star Wars Theme" isn't the "Marriage of Figaro", but
>they stem from the same needs.

The Star Wars Theme may not be "The Marriage of Figaro", but it
DOES stem from Puccini's opera "Manon Lescaut"! (Just like the
Jaws theme is just an obvious ripoff of Dvorak's 9th Symphony.) No,
this doesn't really have any relevance to Klarinet, but Mark's choice
of words was so ironic I couldn't resist pointing this out.

Rob Teitelbaum
Claremont McKenna College