This afternoon I was sent this little bit of nonsense, which I pass on, with the hope that some might find it amusing.
Stewart McCoy. -o-O-o- The following appeared in "Early Music Review" for November 2003. "Years ago, in what seems another life, I worked in record shops. Customers would come in bearing scraps of paper upon which they'd scribbled notes about the music which they had heard on Radio 3 and wanted a recording thereof. Many were wonderful misprints and howlers, and I started to write them down. These are all totally genuine requests - I've not embellished or improved them! Here are some samples: Acker Bilk's Canon Al Bowlly's Adagio Mendelssohn's Wedding Mask Sibelius's Tapioca (and Potholer's Daughter) Chopin's Military Bolognese The Bog Roll from the Tales of Hoffmann Bach's Kestrel Sweets Cream of Gerontius Cavalier Rusty Meccano I particularly liked a Monteverdi one - a request from an old lady who wanted to mug up on an opera she was going to see at Glyndebourne in 1984. She really did call it Constipation of Popeye. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
