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Adolf Hitler would frequently visit the concerts conducted by Jewish composer Gustav Mahler.

Hitler's own record collection was sprinkled with Jewish artists (like Mendelssohn, for example)

When preparing his 6th Symphony for first performance, composer Gustav Mahler wept constantly.

When conductor Oswald Kabasta and his wife attempted suicide after Kabasta being treated harshly during "De Nazification" (he could only work as a common labourer) the conductor succeeded in killing himself, but his wife survived. Sadly, six months later, his wife succeeded in committing suicide.

German composer Richard Strauss visited an elderly and ailing Anton Bruckner to show one of his recent compositions to get Bruckner's approval.

Conductor Arturo Toscanini was at one point, in the early 1930s a champion of the music of Anton Bruckner, conducting his 4th and 7th Symphonies repeatedly. (Also having done the adagio of the 7th way back in Italy in 1896!) After 1935, he never returned to Bruckner's music again. (And unearthed from an archive a few years ago is a Toscanini recording of Bruckner's 7th Symphony)

Beethoven's favorite composer was Handel.



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Canadian rock band Loverboy's singer Mike Reno's real name was Mike Rynoski, and he had previously sang on Canadian heavy rock band Moxy's fourth album Under The Lights in 1978.
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Points: 8684 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2012 at 22:43
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

I was thinking, since the Obscure Prog Facts thread has been so interesting, what about obscure knowledge regarding non-Prog music?  Other types of rock or jazz or classical-anything non prog?



 In 1911, conductor Felix Mottl was conducting a Wagner opera, and in the middle of it, he dropped dead of a heart attack-years later in 1968 at the same concert hall and podium, while conducting the same Wagner opera, conductor Joseph Keilberth dropped dead of a heart attack AT THE SAME BAR OF MUSIC as Mottl had!



 
Goodness! What opera? I want to avoid listening to it until later in life just in case. Tongue
The opera Tristan und Isolde. There is one mistake in my story. Conductor Felix Mottl died, but did not drop dead, but passed on a few days after, though still having had a heart attack on the podium at that specific time in the music. Still pretty weird, though!  And Joseph Keilberth had often told people, "I want to go doing Tristan und Isolde" And he got his wish.
     And thanks, The Truth and Man With Hat, for reviving this long dead thread!Thumbs Up


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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

I was thinking, since the Obscure Prog Facts thread has been so interesting, what about obscure knowledge regarding non-Prog music?  Other types of rock or jazz or classical-anything non prog?



 In 1911, conductor Felix Mottl was conducting a Wagner opera, and in the middle of it, he dropped dead of a heart attack-years later in 1968 at the same concert hall and podium, while conducting the same Wagner opera, conductor Joseph Keilberth dropped dead of a heart attack AT THE SAME BAR OF MUSIC as Mottl had!



 
Goodness! What opera? I want to avoid listening to it until later in life just in case. Tongue
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Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Elton John once attacked Iggy Pop on stage while dressed as a gorilla.
 
Yes really, look it up.


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http://wallofpaul.com/that-was-no-gorilla-that-was-elton-john
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It took the Zeps a week or two to record their first album. 

Joy Division got their first EP pressed, but only after that did they actually hear it and figured that everything sounds so quiet and messy.
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Elton John once attacked Iggy Pop on stage while dressed as a gorilla.
 
Yes really, look it up.
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Points: 8684 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2010 at 17:58
I was thinking, since the Obscure Prog Facts thread has been so interesting, what about obscure knowledge regarding non-Prog music?  Other types of rock or jazz or classical-anything non prog?

Non Prog Rock

     Former singer for the Canadian heavy rock band Moxy, the late Buzz Shearman, was the number one pick for a replacement for AC/DCs Bon Scott, but due to his difficulties with his vocal chords (due no doubt  to drugs and drink) he was passed over

Former seventies UK hard rock band Dirty Tricks were the very original backing band for the solo Ozzy Osbourne

Former lead singer for Dirty Tricks, Kenny Stewart, now fronts a Zeppelin cover band called Stairway To Zeppelin

Former Skid Row, Lonestar, and more famously UFO guitarist Paul Chapman later joined a band made up of some members of southern US band Molly Hatchet

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During Anton Bruckner's funeral service, Brahms stood outside and refused to go in to pay his respects, bitterly muttering, "Soon it will be my turn", and the following year, he was dead

 In 1911, conductor Felix Mottl was conducting a Wagner opera, and in the middle of it, he dropped dead of a heart attack-years later in 1968 at the same concert hall and podium, while conducting the same Wagner opera, conductor Joseph Keilberth dropped dead of a heart attack AT THE SAME BAR OF MUSIC as Mottl had!

Thomas Edison made a recording of Johannes Brahms' voice




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