In message <199505232035.AA10138@mail1.access.digex.net> H-Net British and Irish
History List writes:
> the failure of Canadian or Australian composers to reach the heights of
> Sibelius.
Lovers of Percy Grainger might take exception with that statement.
Karen Mercedes
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| The English patient was discussing the unfortunate |
| life of Lorenz Hart. Some of his best lyrics to |
| "Manhattan", he claimed, had been changed and he now |
| broke into those verses: |
| "We'll bathe at Brighton; / The fish we'll frighten |
| When we're in. / Your bathing suit so thin |
| Will make the shellfish grin / Fin to fin." |
| "Splendid lines, and erotic, but Richard Rodgers,|
| one suspects, wanted more dignity." |
| -- Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT |
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