Bizarre Inspiration
Today I heard a piece by Jacques Offenbach that is allegedly about a parrot owned by a girl’s boarding school, that dies of constipation. The parrot’s death of course affects the young ladies badly. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to listen to the music, but I’m sure it would have been interesting, to say the least.
If you can read German, or if you can operate Babelfish, here’s a URL to a description of the piece:
www.jacques-offenbach.de/liste-vert.html
Update: It’s true!