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Originally Posted by Brian Allgar
"Martin, totally correct on Kodaly [Háry János]. I think it’s his best piece, better than Taras Bulba, etc."
Pssst! ... Allen, 'Taras Bulba' is by Janáček.
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Aaaaaaaaaarrrgh! What me worry?
Ever since I heard Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, my preconscious assumed he wrote everything striking. I hang my head in sorrow (or pride, because
this proves I'm not a robot). Thank you, Brian for proving that I'm analog like my slide rules, and I, I am trying hard to look ashamed and grin and bear it at the same time, and and...
Did you know that Tennyson wrote the famous painting The Rake's Progress? I thought not. It was on the BBC this morning.
As was this,
really, this morning. The talking head is my son-in-law, Matthew Fagan, and he's telling us about trees.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6U...ew?usp=sharing
Anyway, I will swallow hard and accept today's dunce cap.
PS: Ann, nice comment. Gentle. Unlike Coleridge, I try very hard to confine my milk drinking to Fat-Free.
(Ann, you could buy my book. "Allen Tice" on Amazon. Use the "look inside" feature at the second item on avoiding mistakes. Anne Bradstreet was an early American poet of note, born in Britain.)