[5461] in Central_America
Re: New quotes for Thu May 26
jcb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 26 23:59:01 1994
Some corrections:
> Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
> and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
> You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
> and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
> Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
> love whiles composing their long symphony.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh
whilst composing their long symphony,
> But one hundred and fifty years later
> there's very little of them left to see.
> The decomposing composers.
> There's nothing much anyone can do.
> You can still hear Beethoven
> but Beethoven cannot hear you.
> H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
> enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
> But nowadays no one will serve them
> and their grave it is left to conceal.
and their gravy is left to congeal.
> Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
> with their highly original sound.
> The pianos like Pleyel does still working
> but thereabout six feet under ground.
The pianos they played are still working
but they're both six feet underground.
> The decomposing composers.
> There's less of them every year.
> You can say what you like to Debussy
> but there's not much of him left to hear.
> Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
> Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
> Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
> Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
> Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
Should be "Mussorgsky"
And you left off the last line:
Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Chattin' away nightly with a dozen of his mates
down at the pub 1836. 1837 nothing.
