Robert Baldwin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Has anyone else besides me on this list had a "second coming" in terms
>of appreciating the greatness of Tchaikovsky? Here I am, at the ripe old
>age of 45, only now beginning to appreciate this master.  Listening today
>in my car to a Bernstein-conducted CD of the Symphony #4 plus the
>(symphony-unto-itself) Overture "Francesco di Rimini,"

Tiny nit:  it's Francesc*a* d*a* Rimini.  She was ancountered by Dante
in the Inferno, having ended up there because of her famous adultery.
I believe she was originally a real person.

Deryk Barker
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