Ward,
WD> I am am Andrew Lloyd Weber afficionado ... I think he's a musical
WD> genius just as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms etc were ... I'm stopping short
WD> for Mozart, that's another category.
A classical gas is a Mozart Fart. <G> In the movie "Amadeus", the
character of Mozart did just that, on several occasions. While folks
have been farting since day one, society has gotten so banal. There was
a study that determined that people fart from as little as 15 times a day,
to as much as 25 times an hour. I wonder how much of our tax money was used
to determine that?? There was also a rumor that they were going to do a
study on the effects of second hand flatulence, but they couldn't get any
volunteers. :P
WD> When they had the 25th anniversary performance of Phantom of the Opera
WD> in London's Royal Albert Hall, my daughter and I had tickets costing
WD> hundreds of pounds each ... and well worth it. We went to Broadway to watch
WD> his work, Hamburg, other places. Even contemplated Melbourne ...
WD> but the plane tickets were too expensive.
I remember listening to items from it on a record, but never saw it on
TV or in person. I think the theme (or one of them) was "That's All I Ask
Of You".
WD> Anyway, the story about ALW's cat is authentic, she destroyed the
WD> entire score of "Love Never Dies" which was stored, without backup
WD> somewhere, on his Clavinova. That's how we know he doesn't score on
WD> paper anymore.
That was originally on a deal known as "Amateur Radio Newsline".
WD> So Yamaha engineers were flown in and his instrument was disassembled
WD> to see what traces might be left in the chips and a substantial amount
WD> was recuperated. He still had to rewrite several portions, bridges etc
WD> ... There was no orchestral scoring involved.
There is software now where you can create the music, instead of hand
writing everything on sheet music paper (been there, done that). I used
a program called Cakewalk years ago.
WD> "Love Never Dies" had a short carreer, 6 months in London, 6 months in
WD> Melbourne and Brisbane, 1 month in Copenhagen and 1 month in Hamburg.
WD> The public loved it, the critics destroyed it and the financial backers
WD> withdrew fearing for their investment. I saw it in London and Hamburg, with
WD> my daughter, of course ... a masterpiece, thanks to the cat.
The thing is, the public may love it...but if the critics hate it, the
deal is doomed.
WD> With his latest piece "Cinderella" the cat was nowhere near and he
WD> daily backed up his work.
Lesson learned...no pussyfooting around. <G>
WD> Some trivia about data-retrieval: little is it known that about 80% of
WD> all data on the computer discs that went down when the WTC towers collapsed
WD> eventually was recovered ... and that was "a lot".
That's true.
Daryl
... Out of my mind. Be back in five minutes.
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