[TPIN] Wedding March...

[Achias1 at mchsi.com]

OK, here's the plan:

We start spreading the rumor that the Clarke (Purcell) Trumpet Voluntary was actually written for an orgy 
in which everyone ends up killing each other with religious icons.

Then we won't have to play that piece again!

(just a joke)

Dave



> I was told by a University music history professor that in the
> Wagner opera Lohengrin there is a wedding scene.  The music
> he wrote features a three-part women's chorus which is the
> reason for it's name "Bridal Chorus" (I did a wedding once where
> there were three talented singers to cover these parts, and it
> was sublime).  It does really capture the feeling of a wedding.
> But then the trouble is that soon after the wedding, the bride
> kills the husband.
> 
> Music for a murder - but not for a wedding.  That was what I was
> told - more than Wagner's nasty anti-Jewish writing or Hitler's
> admiration of it - was the basis for this music's being often banned.