Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Best known for their lugubrious _Hippopotamus Song_ (aka _Mud! Mud! >Glorious Mud!_), Flanders (sng) & Swann (p) jointly produced some of the >funniest lied this century; as well as startlingly serious pieces such as >_Slow Train_; while severally Flanders wrote a popular English narration >for Stravinski's _Soldier's Tale_ while Swann produced a large body of more >traditionally classical lied as well as a number of major choral scores... >none of which (as far as i can tell) have been recorded.... I agree -- some of their gentle comedy (actually some of it was quite biting -- I remember a 'Song of HiFi' or something similarly titled which took a ride out of audiophiles even in the 1950s.) I didn't know anything about Flanders' narration for Stravinsky -- I would certainly like to know more about it. What ever happened to Swann after Flanders' untimely demise? I heard he caught religion in a big way, but I've sort of lost track... Tim