Klarinet Archive - Posting 000660.txt from 1999/03

From: "Christie Ray" <mtcray@-----.us>
Subj: Re: [kl] WATCH THE DECIBELS!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:20:40 -0500

Now that brings back memories...awful ones. As part of our pledge
initiation into Sigma Alpha Iota in college one of the members ALWAYS
assigned Florence Foster Jenkins to the pledges listening list. It was
so bad...
Christie

Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
>
> To add to Lelia's excellent list:
>
> Singer's hell: a recital by Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy NY
> woman who used to rent Carnegie Hall and give vocal recitals some
> of which were recorded simply to demonstrate her monstrous
> incompetence. Her favorite was the Queen of the Night aria from
> Magic Flute, and I would agree to anything not to have to be
> sentenced to listen to it.
>
> >

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