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Mike Leghorn <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:40:35 -0600
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Jon Gallant wrote:

>Back in the late 1960's, my alter ego Dr. Phage used to do an after-hours
>music program on a non-commercial FM station.  One of the pieces I
>occasionally broadcast was a beautiful little chaconne by an obscure,
>German, baroque composer.  It then existed in only one recording, by
>Munchinger conducting the strings of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
>Within about fifteen years, the piece was bloody EVERYWHERE, and now
>there are millions of versions, for every conceivable scoring, and it
>even has its own Website.

Jon, are you refering to the Canon (Pachelbel)? I remember when the
Munchinger recording was just about the only one.

Mike

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