Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 1998/08

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Classical vs. Popular
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:09:23 -0400

At 07:21 PM 8/3/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I believe Vivaldi was a priest. We may never know if he was gay or
not...if he
>was true to his vows, that is.
>
>Cindy

His nickname...The Red Priest...I assume he was not a Communist:-). What
might have occasioned such a strange nickname?

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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