response 76 of 76:

Nov 9 02:41 UTC 1999

I watched two episodes of Teletubbies last year, and as a result I can 
still sing, or rather hum, the Teletubbies theme song; and I've even 
caught myself doing so.

Above there was a reference to Ray Manzarek's "Carmina Burana".  I 
haven't heard this, but almost all the attempts I have heard by rock 
musicians to play classical music have been excrutiatingly bad, and that 
includes Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Aaron Copland, which was too painful 
to be funny.  They haven't got the classical chops, that's the problem; 
and all they're doing is proving this.

(One conspicuous exception is John Tout, whose Debussy is better than 
most people's.)