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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:27:49 -0700
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Scott Morrison ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Yesterday a choral group I'm in rehearsed and performed, with members of
>the Kansas City Symphony, the Haydn 'Lord Nelson Mass' (Mass in d

I have always found it odd that North Americans tend to refer to this as
the "Lord Nelson" mass, whereas the British call it the "Nelson" mass.  I
wonder what this says about their respective attitudes to the aristocracy?

Or it could be because Lord N would have signed himself merely "Nelson"...

Deryk Barker
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