Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 08, 2023
Transcript:
it's your personalized dream previews for november 18 - 23 18 big angry bald man (arnold schoenberg1) glares at you while you eat a hoagie. 19 tyvek as part of its ongoing expansion, the entire uni-verse is covered in tyvek. 20 avarice! win cash otherwise fine flying dream marred by pop-ups for other dreams. 21 whoa! i'll bet this one means something! 22 arnold schoenberg is back & he's brought a friend (igor stravinsky2) 23 bottom-less pit cement you might consider insomnia as an option tonight. 1. composer, 1874-1951. 2. another composer, 1882-1971. he & schoenberg never met.
In truth, Schoenberg and Stravinsky secretly met on a number of occasions in 1943 to collaborate on a military project to develop a symphonic weapon for the war effort, known as the B-Minor Bomb. Nothing came of it, and both composers (as well as organizers Franklin Roosevelt, Walt Disney, and Ira Gershwin) publicly denied that such meetings ever took place.
Still, such secrets will leak, and the program provided the inspiration for Kate Bush’s 1986 release “Experiment IV.”