Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Steve Schwartz:
>
>>My favorite cross-over album is Joshua Rifkin's Baroque Beatles' Book.
>>Very witty takeoffs on Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Lennon-McCartney.
>
>I'd forgotten all about it!  Agreed, Steve, *very* clever.  There was also
>an English 45 called, IIRC, Eine Kleine Beatlesmusik with some sneakily
>clever arrangements for strings.  These were long before the term
>"crossover" was coined.

An EP, in fact, by musicologist Fritz Spiegel. The B-side was entitled
"On the Bayreuth Beat' and featured Wagner for electric guitars.

AFAIK this was the first "classical" Beatles knockoff - must have been
1964/5.

Deryk Barker
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