[1922] in Humor
HUMOR CLASSIC: Great Moments in Musical History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 3 10:46:50 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 10:38:05 EST
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:32:44 -0800
From: Connie Kleinjans <connie@interserve.com>
From: Charles Haley <Charles.Haley@gsi.fr>
From: "Krista Gimeno" <100423.1220@compuserve.com>
This is a list of quotes from grade school essays on classical music. I don't
know where it came from, but I thought you might enjoy it:
"J.S. Bach died from 1750 to the present."
"Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music."
"Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better
not try to sing."
"Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was
rather large."
"Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he
wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone
was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good. Beethoven
expired in 1827 and later died from this."
"Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard
of."
"An opera is a song of bigly size."
"A harp is a nude piano."
"Aaron Copland is one of our most famous contemporary composers. It
is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they
are dead."
"A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals."
"Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel."
"Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago."
"My favorite composer is opus."
"Probably the most marvelous fugue was between the Hatfields and the
McCoys."
"My very best liked piece is the bronze lullaby."
