Unraveling Musical Myths is excited to announce that the thirteenth installment of Trivia & Humor is currently underway and will be live soon!
The "spooky" numeric will not be glossed over - the forthcoming edition aims to present to the reader a litany of unspeakable debauchery from the annals of musical hell. This series has covered every lecherous pestilence known to infect and terrorize some of the greatest musical minds to have ever lived - from sexually transmitted disease and hysteria to mêlées and murder. Next, we look at what can arguably be deemed as man's greatest scourge of all: that pesky little thing called "love!"
In the interim, what better way to celebrate mayhem and music than with a little comical interlude? In honor of the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Herr Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater on this day in 1868, watch below a charming clip from the 1946 musical comedy "Two Sisters from Boston" starring the great heldentenor Lauritz Melchior as opera singer "Olstrom." In this cheeky scene, Olstrom can be seen singing the celebrated Prize Song (Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein) from Die Meistersinger into a phonograph as RCA-Victor mascot Nipper looks on - hilariously striking the famous pose from the iconic "His Master's Voice" campaign.
Stay tuned!
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