RE: Looking for a composer who was a dwarf

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There was a song written I believe for the LPA to sell years ago and

Barty was talking about it. From Were I Stand was the name of it I think.

Irwin

[Guest guest]

Don't forget Alan 's version of Little Bitty~ Amy loves that song!

Patty

Looking for a composer who was a dwarf

My wife and I are giving a talk on my book at church next Sunday. The church

pianist asked if I could think of any theme-appropriate music.

Unfortunately, all I could think of was theme-inappropriate music ( " Short

People, " " Follow the Yellow Brick Road " ).

Michel Petrucciani was a jazz musician, and I'm afraid that isn't going to

work.

Anyway ... can anyone think of a classical composer who was a dwarf? None

springs immediately to my mind, but who knows?

Thanks!

Dan

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[Guest guest]

At 01:48 PM 2/8/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>My wife and I are giving a talk on my book at church next Sunday. The church

>pianist asked if I could think of any theme-appropriate music.

>Unfortunately, all I could think of was theme-inappropriate music ( " Short

>People, " " Follow the Yellow Brick Road " ).

>

>Michel Petrucciani was a jazz musician, and I'm afraid that isn't going to

>work.

>

>Anyway ... can anyone think of a classical composer who was a dwarf? None

>springs immediately to my mind, but who knows?

no, but i can think of some entertainers, actors that were dwarfs... :-) LOL

what about some mainstream " classics " that don't even mention dwarf or are

composed by a dwarf but have meaning & inspiration for " us? "

i.e. sound of music's " Climb Ev'ry Mountain "

there has to be more if you, we stop to think...

p. s. how was my grammar, sentence structure, innuendo & double speak? did

everyone understand my point in spite of it?

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From: Dan Kennedy<mailto:dkennedy@...>

> My wife and I are giving a talk on my book at church next Sunday. The

church

> pianist asked if I could think of any theme-appropriate music.

> Unfortunately, all I could think of was theme-inappropriate music

( " Short

> People, " " Follow the Yellow Brick Road " ).

>

> Michel Petrucciani was a jazz musician, and I'm afraid that isn't going

to

> work.

O.K., so it's Sunday night and I'm bored. Take up the challenge Fred!

BUT, as ever, once one begins searching the net for ANYTHING to do with the

word " Dwarf " one invariably gets snowed (excuse the pun) under with either

the Seven Dwarfs, Red Dwarf, OR......... music to download for ones cell

phone!

BUT.......................... I offer, for your consideration and

delectation, two possibles I DID manage to find.....

One of Wagners' most interesting decisions as creator of Der Ring

des Nibelungen was to leave unclear the fate of Alberich, the villainous

dwarf who has set in motion the inexorable machinery of destiny, leading in

the end to the apocalyptic cataclysm which concludes Götterdämmerung.

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Two operas by von Zemlinsky, performed in concert, constituted the

last program of the American Symphony Orchestra's 2001-2 season in Avery

Fisher Hall. Leon Botstein, the ASO's music director, likes to bring before

his public rarely heard romantic works, and A Florentine Tragedy and The

Dwarf both based on plays by Wilde, surely qualify.

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Mind, if you are REALLY desperate, then you could always get the church

organist to play the " Yo ho, yo ho, it's off............ " theme music:-)

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ORRRRRRR, where you ever taught that little biblical ditty at Sunday

School.....

Now Zachius was a very little man, and a very little man was he...

He climbed up to a Sycamore tree

For his saviour he wanted to see.....

For,,,,, his saviour he wanted to see!!!!

Hang on!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOT IT!!!!!!!! Wharabout the Umpa Lumpa

SONG???????????????????? Yer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fred, bored!

[Guest guest]

Mr. Black!

And I use that term loosely in regards to you, sir. How dare you come on

this list, in the innocent guise of one trying to bring levity here, and

spit, yes I said spit, in very face of our correct and unchangeable

English grammar. Why I've half a mind to dial up Ashcroft and have

him tear up you library card (after first checking your reading list to

find out what kind of subversive material you've been reading to lead

you down this deeply evil path).

Marty

no, but i can think of some entertainers, actors that were dwarfs...

:-) LOL

what about some mainstream " classics " that don't even mention dwarf or

are

composed by a dwarf but have meaning & inspiration for " us? "

i.e. sound of music's " Climb Ev'ry Mountain "

there has to be more if you, we stop to think...

p. s. how was my grammar, sentence structure, innuendo & double speak?

did

everyone understand my point in spite of it?

shortdwarf.com

mailto:inbox@...

" where size meets reality "

517-371-2225 voice

775-521-7001 or 707-313-1923 fax

http://shortdwarf.com

208B S 8TH ST, LANSING MI 48912-1422

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