It's a load of street children making fun of Pagliacci - I was only 10 then, and found myself in a recording studio with Tito Gobbi (wow, could he sing - wow, was he fat!) and Dame Joan Sutherland (who was great with us kids, and knitted in between takes). Halcyon days...
In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril.
Grin - Somebody change the calendar - and left the others out?
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The origin of this custom has been very much disputed. Many theories have been suggested. What seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's Day, the 25th of March, ended on the 2nd of April.
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so on 1 April, 1572, "Alba lost his glasses". Dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate the first of April.
Reading at wikipedia site about this, remaind me a talk I gave during my PhD in Canberra April 1st, 1993.
I presented my work done at the University of Pisa and shown a picture of the Leaning Tower
and say, as you see, that now it's straight.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:
valterb wrote:
I presented my work done at the University of Pisa and shown a picture of the Leaning Tower
I never had so many question during a speech
Valter
Great pic, valter! It sorts of plays tricks with the mind to see it like that. Actually, when I look at that, I reckon it would still draw crowds for its architecture, even if it was straight! I climbed it on a wet day in the mid-1970s, and I seem to remember that they didn't have anything but pretty flimsy guard rails. Scary, from memory.
Peter
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:
yoxi wrote:
It's a load of street children making fun of Pagliacci - I was only 10 then, and found myself in a recording studio with Tito Gobbi (wow, could he sing - wow, was he fat!) and Dame Joan Sutherland (who was great with us kids, and knitted in between takes). Halcyon days...
WOW, being an opera lover I am impressed. I only know Gobbi's voice through my recordings, one of my favorites is the EMI Trittico. Heh I wonder if I have that recoring sitting in my collection of near 1k...
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