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Re: Introduction
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Lionel Choi <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:27:41 +0800
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Miguel Muelle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I think it was
>Sir Adrian Boult described the harpsichord as the sound of two skeletons
>copulating on a tin roof.

Nope.  It was George Szell, I believe.  It says so in the CD booklet of the
recently-reissued set of Szell's Haydn Symphonies Nos. 97 - 99 on the Sony
Masterworks Heritage series.

Lionel Choi
Singapore
http://www.singnet.com.sg/~lionelc/dummies.html

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