Comments on On An Overgrown Path: So you thought classical music was dead?

Email received:Mea Culpa. Dr Michael Eades of Prot...

2008-01-25T07:51:00.000Z

Email received:

Mea Culpa.

Dr Michael Eades of Protein Power is very interested in music -- he studied the violin in his youth and his wife Dr MD Eades is president of the Santa Barbara Choral Soc.

Anyway, it has become a bit of a habit (I wouldn't grace it with the dignity of "tradition") for me to comment on his site and then provide a something completely different about music at the end.

It was Overgrown's turn yesterday.

It all derived from the following post last year:

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/does-the-atkins-diet-damage-blood-vessels/

My comment is the first and the good Doctor inquired as to what the program at the Opera House concert was.

It all began with an earlier post (which I haven't bothered to find) where I remarked on a passage I had been reading in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House, while waiting for some people prior to a concert, from Book 3 of Herodotus which commented on the short lives of the Egyptians who ate grain vs the 120 year long lifespans of the Ethiopians, who ate low carb. Dr Mike then asked what was on the program.

It's there in the archive somewhere.

Michael Richards

A lot of traffic coming to this post from a very n...

2008-01-24T16:05:00.000Z

A lot of traffic coming to this post from a very nice link on an unlikely blog -
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/a-bad-week-for-statins/

David, no embarrassment needed at all. Like you I ...

2008-01-23T13:30:00.000Z

David, no embarrassment needed at all. Like you I remembered the DG Galleria CDs, not the LPs.

When your comment arrived I actually thought you were right and that I had got the date wrong. I went away and double-checked, and was really surprised that, yes, those images had first appeared on LPs 26 years ago. Which is why I thought a further post was worthwhile.

And as it turned out your comment started a thread which uncovered new information we couldn't possibly have lived without, like that Austrian 5 euro 'Herbie' coin.

It's the thread that counts. And funny to think this one started with Bernstein's Mass.

Thanks. A bit embarrassed you accepted a comment t...

2008-01-23T13:17:00.000Z

Thanks. A bit embarrassed you accepted a comment that was just plain wrong! (I'm a big fan of EMI Karajan. Almost everything he did with the Philharmonia was wonderful. Some of that Beethoven cycle is a relief after turbulent Fürtwängler and the Brahms 4 is better, and more virile, imo, than Kleiber's famous DG recording.)