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Hi, and welcome, Fernando Gobbi, who wrote:
>So every night he put a tape recording down the chimney of Wanda Lanowski
>(some name lika that)playing this very noisy tinkly piano, like it had
>tacks on the strings. It drove us crazy!
Must have been her Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord. I think it was
Sir Adrian Boult described the harpsichord as the sound of two skeletons
copulating on a tin roof.
>all by himself. That's good for a singer, no? That Domingo fella is pretty
>good, too,but his Italian sounds funny to me and it's like he sings
>everything with a Puerto Rican accent. I think he is from San Juan.
Placido Domingo is from Spain, and I thought his Italian to be pretty good.
He also lives in Mexico. Not Puerto Rican, I'm afraid. I'd take him over
Pavarotti anyday. (So would my wife... ;o)
>Pollini - my friend Pauly (we call him "no neck") took me to the Carnegie
>Hall over there on 7th avenus. What a place that is! Beautiful. So this
>guy Pollini - a real Italian, but not Sicilian- he plays beautiful!
Yes. I cut my Chopin teeth on his Etudes and Preludes. I haven't heard
his Beethoven. A great musician.
>out in the garage. OK, I gotta go now because my wife she's screaming at
>me and dinner is getting cold. Smells good - she makes tonight a linguine
>tuttomare. OK bye.
You wouldn't have to call me twice for that -- or any meal, for that
matter! So welcome to the list. One thing -- I can't help thinking you
almost sound TOO Italian -- but I suppose there's never too much of a good
thing ;o).
Buon Apetito!
Miguel Muelle
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http://www.mindspring.com/~mmuelle
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