Modern Proverbs Appeal

[Landau, James]

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From: Doug Harris [mailto:cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Modern Proverbs Appeal

Jim Landau wrote:
"Music has been going steadily downhill ever since Johann Sebastian."
This from my music teacher, Robert "Bob" Johnson, about 1974.  Bob was a
specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music.
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Did he also say "If it ain't Baroque, Fix It!!" ??
(the other) doug

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Bob was too much of a Renaissance man to use such a plebian pun.  He
would have considered it evil, or at least medievil.

(And shouldn't that read "If it ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It!!"?)

Another Bob Johnson quote:  "When I was little, I always wondered why
the Christians and the Jews couldn't get along, since they were both
white"  (Bob, despite his musical tastes, was African-American)

    - Jim Landau, who, thanks to Bob Johnson's instruction, can still
play the recorder flute

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