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...romantic actor wants it to be clear that he is not a family man. "You Americans, you always have to have a conventional image of a father and a daughter," he chided. "That image makes people happy, but not my daughter and me. It's nice, but..." Then Papa Marcello sawed away on an imaginary violin...
...these days fancies stepping out to parties in long gowns with superfluous decolletage, doesn't much care for her film costume: a Little League baseball suit. "It's suffocatingly hot," she complains. Furthermore, she isn't interested in baseball, and had to have coaching by Papa Ryan before she could get the ball across the plate. Even worse, when Los Angeles Dodger Steve...
Altogether, the events in Washington give us the chance to hear not only the papa but the young genius and the middle-aged master as well. All three are wonderful to have around...
...Papa Haydn wrote this tune, And a chord is coming soon. It will be a big surprise. Open sleepy eyes. Bang. -Sigmund Spaeth
Growing up, learning to play the piano, singing patronizing ditties like that, small wonder that thousands upon thousands of young children ended up with kindly but bored thoughts of old Papa Haydn. Set to the jolly theme from the Surprise Symphony, not unlike Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, it conjured up an image of a doddering prankster whose place in history was unquestioned but whose music was best ignored. For much of the late 19th century and most of the 20th, that is exactly what almost everyone thought of Franz Joseph Haydn...