Cosmic Connection

Having read Norman Lebrecht's "Who killed Classical Music", "The Maestro Myth", "Covent Garden", not to mention Blair Tindall's "Mozart in the Jungle"* and having my own experiences with the Seattle Symphony, I thought I had had assembled a reasonably complete picture of what that environment was like.
At the same time, however, there was a nagging feeling that I had known it already, that somehow I'd already experienced it all.

Then, last night, we broke out our old VCR tape of the Marx Brothers "Night at the Opera" and it all came back.

Kaufman's version penetrates to the heart of the matter more deeply than the other aforementioned authors.

*
I thought I told you not to mention that.