Jam'n 94.5 und Die Valkure

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:53:40 -0500, "Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@earthlink.net> said:

> One of the girls' cell phone rang. She had The Ride of the Valkyries
> from Richard Wagner's opera Die Valkure programmed in for a ring
> tone...geeze, what a combo, just back from The Monster Jam and she
> has her cell playing Wagner...

I would be surprised, no SHOCKED, I TELL YOU, if the girl had any clue
who Richard Wagner was, or even that her ring tone was appropriated
from a famous (or perhaps infamous) opera.  She's probably heard the
theme more as production music on TV than in its original form.

-GAWollman