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From:  "Steve Fraser <Steve.Fraser@j...
Date:  Wed Feb 19, 2003  10:24 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Musid Man - Barbershop Quartet

--- In vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com, "Margaret L. Harrison"
<peggyh@i...> wrote:

<snip>
>So I missed the ladies as chickens number. And I tuned in too late
to hear that marvelous train number, which I think may be the most
innovative thing that composer ever did -

Ah, yes! They did that train scene very well, especially with the
camera angles on MB playing cards while the piece is going on... you
do not get to see his whole face until the end.

I think of it as a travelling salesman's version of a pre-Vanilla-Ice
rap. (Lawrence Welk voice:And-a-1, and-a-2, and-a-3, Get down, funky
white boys....)

All the best,

Steven Fraser





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