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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sonata for Piano and Dogs (Bagpipes and Tubas Forever)
Message-ID: <383@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 15:38:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 15:38:00 1985
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Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill @ The Seattle Brass Pipe Choir)
Organization: The Seattle Brass Pipe Choir ("We don't do sinks!")
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Summary: 

In article <757@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes:
>>[...] His rendition of 
>>the Mazurka #49 in A minor (Op 68, no 2) by Chopin is truly inspiring, if
>>only because he succeeds in taking a nice, delicate piano piece and doing
>>in with a quartet of tubas...
>
>Actually, the piece which included the vacuum cleaner was by Malcolm Arnold
>and was entitled "A Grand Grand Overture for Orchestra, Organ, Bagpipes,
>Rifles, Three Hoovers and an Electric Floor Polisherr," and the year of the
>first Hoffnung Music Festival (there were 3) was 1960.

Ouch! Come on, guys, what've you got against Tubas and Bagpipes??!??

(Actually, there *is* a pipe band near Seattle that has a tuba in it!!
 That's Bizarre!!!!)
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
  "..and on the 8th day, He created Bagpipes!"