Klarinet Archive - Posting 001160.txt from 1998/09
From: MorgyJr@-----.com Subj: Re: [kl] The clarinet in literature Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:38:39 -0400
In a message dated 9/26/98 7:20:55 PM, LeliaLoban@-----.com writes:
<<"One evening during the war, Hitler was whistling a classical air. When a
secretary had the temerity to suggest that he had made a mistake in the
melody, the Fuhrer was furious . . . shouting angrily, 'I don't have it wrong.
It is the composer who made a mistake in this passage.'"
-- Quoted in Waite, p. 48.>>
the composer was probably mendelsohn. :)
we all know what Dick Wagner thought about those of Jewish descent.
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