[78-L] Capriccio Italien

[David Lennick]

On 3/10/2012 1:52 PM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 10/03/2012, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> And into the 40s we had "The Heart of The Symphony" (and Concerto and
>> Opera usw), but we still have those things..one of the "prizes" often
>> offered by public radio stations is a 5-disc set of Adagios. If you
>> need 5 cds of adagios, you need help. (The Buffalo station offers
>> this, but it's also the only full classical station worth listening to
>> in the Toronto area, and I gladly pay far too much to my cable company
>> because they carry it as well.)
>>
> The Adagios come from the idea that classical music is soothing and
> restful.
>
> The approach is much like that of Readers' Digest with their Condensed
> Books. (Or Cndnsd Bks.)
>
> Regards

And then there's Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4

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