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[log in to unmask] writes:
>Glen Miller asked:
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>what is the big deal about Bach's Mass in B minor?
Actually, you got this confused with someone else. Someone responded
to me on my post and stated the above comment. As for myself, I am not
qualified to have an opinion since I have rarely ever listened to it.
Just wanted to set the record straight.
Yoel L. Arbeitman wrote:
>Totally agreed. But why, Robert, do you mention Kalman? I have always
>heard the Lehar was der Fuehrer's favorite.
While I understand that Lehar probably was not Aryan, Hitler was able
to overlook this defect in him. The same was not true about Kalman,
who was Jewish and had to emigrate to America to escape persecution.
A friend of our family worked as Kalman's secretary in NY, typing
his librettos before the days of word processors. She attributed
the following anecdote to him. Kalman and a friend were being denied
admission to some place and the outraged friend asked, "Don't you know
who this is?" The bouncer, or whoever, didn't know and was unimpressed
when told that this was the great composer Kalman. What did he compose?
The friend hummed a few highly tuneful bars and the guard relented and
let both pass. Safely past that Cereberus, Kalman said to his friend,
"That was very nice but the music was by Lehar."
Walter Meyer
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