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 [log in to unmask]