The Trivia Hound


265. Paris, 1870

Mom & Jim got #264!


Needing a break from the cowboy scene, I went back to Paris. While there I visited the Opera Populaire and saw this woman sing.



| posted by John, 7:15 AM

4 Comments:

I believe this is Emmy Rossum as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera.
Blogger Jim, at 7:43 AM  
Right! Yesterday I saw a college choir / orchestra performing a tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

It got me to thinking, why do some people insist on using all three names, all the time? It's Andrew Lloyd Webber, never Andrew Webber. It's never Thomas Church, it's Thomas Hayden Church. It's not like there's a danger of confusion, like with John Adams and John Quincy Adams, or Jerry Lewis with Jerry Lee Lewis. Yet we have Charles Nelson Reilly, Robert Earl Keen, David Ogden Stiers, Lee Harvey Oswald, what's the point? Why add the extra syllabes? Do longer names impress people more? I'll stop ranting now before I start sounding like Jerry Seinfeld.
Blogger John, at 9:37 AM  
I think Andrew Webber sounded too mundane for a composer with the pretensions of an Andrew Lloyd.
Blogger Jim, at 1:12 PM  
I suppose so. And I guess "Andy" was out of the question.
Blogger John, at 5:09 PM  

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