[Alberta's Child]

There was a time I could never hear that classical music without thinking of Firing Line.

Now, that music reminds me of a hilarious radio segment by a New York City talk radio host named Jay Diamond back in the early 1990s. Diamond could amazing on-air impersonations of all kinds of famous people -- including William F. Buckley. For a while he would do a periodic skit in which he'd play the opening strains of Firing Line, then have "William . . . F. . . . Buckley" introduce a comical "show" called Firing Squad in which he lampooned all kinds of silly liberals in the news at the time.

[Pyro7480]

His use of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (BMV 1047), 3d movement (Allegro Assai) as the theme for Firing Line gave me my first (childhood) appreciation of orchestral music (and especially in this case, the Baroque).

GMTA. See my #40 and my #94.