Once, long ago, during the mid '80s, I was moonlighting in a
record store on the the Upper West Side on Broadway in Manhattan.
It was during this time that audio CDs were in their infancy &
analog recordings were being remastered on to discs.
One of the discs we were promoting was: "Toscannini & Wagnerian
Overtures with the NBC Orchestra" (a magnificent recording!).
One day a customer walked in as the recording was playing -
she asked, "who is that"? I responded, "That's Toscannini conducting
the NBC Orchestra in the prelude to Act III of Die Walk:ure by Wagner."
She commented as she walked out of the store, "Oh, that Nazi, I hate him"!
I had no words for her as I watched her leave the store...that was one "no
sale"
that didn't hurt in the least.
E.V.
who feels people are entitled to their opinion (no matter how wrong they may
be).
----Original Message-----
>From: Ingo Duckerschein <ingo_d@y...>
>Subject: [vocalist-temporary] RE: 'opera singer' was junior,
church- my rant
>Date: Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:09 AM
>
>Elizabeth wrote:
>
>> Me, I can sit through Verdi. Four hours of Wagner, that's a
>> different story.
>>
>> Elizabeth "*%$# Nazi music!" Finkler
>
>As a German, how exactly am I supposed to take the "*%$# Nazi music!"
>comment? Granted, I'm not crazy about Wagner's _music_ myself
>(although I am really enjoying studying in "O Du Holder Abendstern"
>right now), but last time I checked he lived and died in the 19th
>century whereas Nazism is a curse of the 20th century.
>
>Ingo
>
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