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« Reply #15 on: 10:10:50, 27-10-2008 »
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Quote from: time_is_now on 21:14:19, 26-10-2008
Turf, can you show me the way to the I Don't Understand This Thread room???

It's a quote from the film Educating Rita - Rita is flat-hunting and visits a house owned by an overwrought eccentric hippy, played by Maureen Lipman - whose first words as she answers the door to Rita, to the sound of Mahler blasting on a stereo, are "Would't you just die without Mahler?"
Ah, thank you Mr Wagnerite! That does ring a quiet bell now but it escaped me completely before.
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« Reply #16 on: 20:37:31, 27-10-2008 »
I have never seen Educating Rita. Is that the sequel to I Dismember Mama?
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« Reply #17 on: 20:42:49, 27-10-2008 »
It is - apologies if you already knew this much - an adaptation of the story of Shaw's Pygmalion, which, being written in 1913 (the play that is), was not the basis for an opera by Gustav Mahler. No doubt he would have set it had he lived.
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« Reply #18 on: 03:17:25, 28-10-2008 »
No doubt.  Wink
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« Reply #19 on: 07:48:26, 28-10-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 20:42:49, 27-10-2008
It is - apologies if you already knew this much - an adaptation of the story of Shaw's Pygmalion, which, being written in 1913 (the play that is), was not the basis for an opera by Gustav Mahler. No doubt he would have set it had he lived.
Well, since Mahler's operatic credentials, substantial though they obviously were, extended no farther than the end of his baton, I think that "we" (sorry!) can form our own conclusions about that possibility...
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« Reply #20 on: 10:18:31, 28-10-2008 »
Well done everyone. Now he's Radio 3's composer of the week.
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« Reply #21 on: 12:24:21, 29-10-2008 »
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« Reply #22 on: 13:02:57, 29-10-2008 »
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Who is?
Michael Caine.
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« Reply #23 on: 13:11:00, 29-10-2008 »
As you can see, not a lot of people know that.
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