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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Mon Apr 10, 2000  8:32 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Microsoft meets Mozart (and other anachronisms)


>From: sopran@a...
>
>More on the mis-use of Mozart:
>
>And I just rented "Elizabeth"--the final scene with the Lux aeterna is
>powerful, but I couldn't help being distracted by the anachronism!
>
>Judy

Oh, that's nothing. "The Scarlet Empress" ends with the apotheosis of
Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great, with Beethoven's "1812 Overture"
cooking in the background.

Elizabeth Finkler
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--Calvin

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