In a message dated 4/20/01 1:07:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, linda@f... writes:
<< I'm listening to a CD of Purcell's Come Ye Sons Of Art, and am grinning at the memory of my oh-so-prim niece being in trouble (it was called a "demerit") for the first and only time in her school choir when they sang this, because on the phrase "grant, oh grant", she and a friend were making piggy noises because they thought it came out exactly like "grunt, oh grunt". I guess this only works in southern English pronunciation. >>
Heee heee!! Reminds me of my husband's barking (didn't think he had the nerve to do it in rehearsal... he did of course when we listened to the recording at home) during the Mozart Requeim at the point where "Rex" "Rex" is repeated with some silence in between the repetitions, before the chorus continues, "Rex tremendo majestatis.
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