Sporting composers
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There have been a few racehorses named after composers most notably recently with some of Aidan O'Brien's horses on the Flat, including Sergei Prokofiev, van Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mahler. There seems to be a classical music fan amongst his owners.
Another musically related horse, for those with longer memories, was Rheingold in the early 1970s."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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I would have like to have joined one of Arnold Schoenberg's famous tennis doubles in California which included the likes of Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin and Groucho Marx (whose mother's maiden name coincidentally was also Schönberg). I believe he was quite a decent tennis player but his son became something of a local champion. I read somewhere that Arnold was walking along on the UCLA campus one day and overheard a couple of students pointing towards him. One of them observed: That's Schoenberg's father!
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostI would have like to have joined one of Arnold Schoenberg's famous tennis doubles in California which included the likes of Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin and Groucho Marx (whose mother's maiden name coincidentally was also Schönberg). I believe he was quite a decent tennis player but his son became something of a local champion. I read somewhere that Arnold was walking along on the UCLA campus one day and overheard a couple of students pointing towards him. One of them observed: That's Schoenberg's father!
He passed his enthusiasm on to his children, with Ronald becoming, as you say, rather more proficient than his father.
... and always insured that the racquet was tuned to A = 440
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Oakapple
Apparently Elgar set the words "he banged the leather for goal" to music after reading them in a newspaper report about a football match. I've never been able to find this music, though.
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Originally posted by Oakapple View PostApparently Elgar set the words "he banged the leather for goal" to music after reading them in a newspaper report about a football match. I've never been able to find this music, though.
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When I was young our local professional baseball team added a marginal player named Richard Wagner (pronounces Wag-ner). When ever his name was mentioned my father would yell “Ree-kard Vagnher at the plate” and start goosestepping around the room humming the Prelude to Meistersinger. It was only years later after I got into Music that I understood the joke.
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