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Unpleasantness below stairsIN HIS affection for the waltz, Richard Strauss is often compared to his namesake (but no relation) Johann Strauss II. |
Round the piano with the hymnalRALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS was sitting down to supper in a Bayreuth restaurant when his party was advised by a waiter that Die Walküre was in fact just starting... |
Vintage gossip from the Restoration eraPHILOSOPHER, scientist, antiquarian, gossip, and scourge of aristocrats, mountebanks, bishops, and hapless clerics, John Aubrey was born at Easton Piers... |
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