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To: nopardons; Baldwin77

When I was a kid my parents bought the Operettas collection of records from Readers Digest. The family knew every operetta by heart and sang them on road trips. Porgy and Bess, Showboat, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, Roberta, Babes In Toyland, etc. I found the set on CDs a few years ago and all were there except Porgy and Bess. I thought they might have “scrubbed” the collection to take out anything that could be perceived as racist.


976 posted on 03/01/2016 4:39:48 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Party like it's 1773!)
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All those screaming meemies behind and around Sanders don't have the faintest idea of what socialism is...and they wouldn't care if they knew.

Leni

983 posted on 03/01/2016 4:41:04 PM PST by MinuteGal (GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
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To: MayflowerMadam
My parents did operetta as fun/semi-professionally, so I grew up backstage and know a lot of them still. :-)

Pity about your collection omitting P&B; it the first AMERICAN OPERA.

1,155 posted on 03/01/2016 5:14:29 PM PST by nopardons
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