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re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm)

Posted by: Ann 03:20 pm EST 11/21/14
In reply to: re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm) - bearcat 02:51 pm EST 11/21/14

Gross Indocentcy


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re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm)

Posted by: pierce 08:04 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm) - Ann 03:20 pm EST 11/21/14

I remember one guy standing in line in front of me at TKTS in the 70s pointing to the play Travesties and asking for "two tickets to Transvestites."


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re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm)

Posted by: Chromolume 11:30 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm) - pierce 08:04 am EST 11/22/14

My favorite story along those lines is, as a teen, waiting for a bus and hearing two older women talking about an upcoming symphony concert where "Yo Ma Ma" was to be playing. I dared not correct them. ;-)

That, and when a doting aunt once took my brother and I out to eat, and she wanted to order the quiche - except she called it a "kwee-shay."


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re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm)

Posted by: AlanScott 06:09 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm) - Chromolume 11:30 am EST 11/22/14

I used to belong to the papering service Audience Extras. This was back before the internet was really active. You called a phone number, and you listened to a message with the current offerings. Sometimes they had concerts, and the people who recorded the message didn't always know how to pronounce some of the names they had to say. I heard the usual mispronunciations of names like Debussy and Dvorak and they also had trouble with the name Edith Piaf (when a one-woman about Piaf was running).

But the funniest one I heard was when they had tickets for a concert at which Beethoven's Erotica symphony was to be played. (I'm not making this up, you know.)


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Oh, baby ...

Posted by: Alcindoro 07:11 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: Perhaps someone should revive The Seven Docents of Myrtle (nm) - AlanScott 06:09 pm EST 11/22/14

In the early 80s I worked in the classical section at Tower Records, both down- and uptown. We salesclerks sometimes took unabashed evil glee in "correcting" customers who would mispronounce names and titles.

Q: Where can I find Mozart's Inky-Dinky Night Music?
A: Try looking under Jimmy Durante.

Or the classic withering reply to, "Who wrote Ravel (rhymes with travel)'s Bolero?"

Good times.


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re: Oh, baby ...

Posted by: AlanScott 12:03 am EST 11/23/14
In reply to: Oh, baby ... - Alcindoro 07:11 pm EST 11/22/14

Between the ages of 18 and 23, I worked on and off (mostly part-time) in the classical department of The Record Hunter. (Remember The Record Hunter?) I don't remember similar stuff happening. But I'm sure it did.

I can still remember one of the questions I had to answer on the verbal quiz I was given to get the job: Name three operas by Bellini.


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re: Oh, baby ...

Posted by: Alcindoro 01:54 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Oh, baby ... - AlanScott 12:03 am EST 11/23/14

Oh yes, I remember The Record Hunter. I still have a few LPs with their sticker on the shrink wrap.

Name three operas by Bellini: Isn't I CAPULETTI E LILIANNE MONTEVECCHI one?


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re: Oh, baby ...

Posted by: AlanScott 04:49 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Oh, baby ... - Alcindoro 01:54 pm EST 11/23/14

I remember that question because it was the only one that required me to do a tiny bit of thinking. While I said the first two, which I think were Norma and I Puritani, I had to quickly think of a third one. I think La Sonnambula was the one I named, but I'm not sure. I don't think that I even paused, but it did require a tiny bit of thought.

If I were asked that now, it would probably take me longer to come up with three than it did then.

I don't think we want to hear Liliane sing Bellini. ;)


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re: Oh, baby ...

Posted by: Alcindoro 06:11 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Oh, baby ... - AlanScott 04:49 pm EST 11/23/14

A dear departed friend used to find the translation of "Mira o Norma" as "Look, Norma..." endlessly hilarious. I guess it is when spoken by Fran Drescher.


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"La sonnambula ha bevuto l’Bellini in un sorso"

Posted by: garyd 03:16 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Oh, baby ... - Alcindoro 01:54 pm EST 11/23/14

nmi


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re: "La sonnambula ha bevuto l’Bellini in un sorso"

Posted by: Alcindoro 06:14 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: "La sonnambula ha bevuto l’Bellini in un sorso" - garyd 03:16 pm EST 11/23/14

And thus was born the glottal attack.


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