Word: prinz
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Spare a thought today for Dr. Leonhard Prinz. I know that you won't have heard of him. But if you're a baby-boomer, you probably knew someone just like him as you grew up in the '60s. Dr. Prinz was the music teacher at my elder brother's school. A booming, opinionated Austrian with mid-European charm, he was a frequent guest at my parents' dinner table in the '60s, where he would hold forth on the merits of Mozart and the contributions of Chopin...
...That was approximately 35 years ago, and I was thinking of him this morning as the Beatles new compilation "1" hit the No. 1 spot in more than 20 countries (including the U.S.) and the Beatles' first movie, "A Hard Day's Night," was reissued in America. Dr. Prinz was certainly not alone in his beliefs. The studio that originally produced "A Hard Day's Night," United Artists, commissioned the film only because they divined (correctly) that they would make money from the soundtrack album. So unconvinced were they that the film itself would have merit that they ordered producer...