Mellotronists

In a message dated 1/22/2005 8:06:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, Rick Blechta <rick@...> writes:

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>On Jan 22, 2005, at 2:10 AM, tron@... wrote:
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>> Phrases like 'Mellotron Symphony' make my blood run colder than usual.
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>> Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
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>Oh dear... I wish you told Fritz this a year ago. Last I heard he was 
>up to the opening chorale in the 3rd movement (the work being based on 
>that great Newfoundland folk song "I'se the Bye That Builds the Boat" 
>and 60s television show theme songs) and I'VE spent the better part of 
>6 months lining up 15 mellotrons to play it AND Martin was already to 
>conduct. Just last week I'd fielded a call from Ice Capades. Seems they 
>were interested in staging it, sort of a "mellotrons on ice" show.
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>Well gang, drop tools. Dickson doesn't like the idea. We wouldn't want 
>his blood to run cold now, would we? Shame, really...
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>Rick
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I thought it was the Elizabethan English peasant's cadence, "King James has gone a bathin' "

Fritz