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It has been remarked above that almost any subject can
become the theme of an operatic aria – Joseph Haydn delighted in
finally managing to include one in praise of his own industry (Die
Jahreszeiten; Der Sommer: ‘O Fleiẞ’). In Aghast at the Wedding
the restaurant pianist Max Delamare (Roger Hill) sings a eulogy
to his (fictive) Austin Bentley 1939. An echo, perhaps, of the
composer’s joy in his own Wolseley 1500 which was put out to
grass (literally) in front of the Murphy family residence, where it
remained until it had to be removed, piecemeal, in 2015.
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become the theme of an operatic aria – Joseph Haydn delighted in
finally managing to include one in praise of his own industry (Die
Jahreszeiten; Der Sommer: ‘O Fleiẞ’). In Aghast at the Wedding
the restaurant pianist Max Delamare (Roger Hill) sings a eulogy
to his (fictive) Austin Bentley 1939. An echo, perhaps, of the
composer’s joy in his own Wolseley 1500 which was put out to
grass (literally) in front of the Murphy family residence, where it
remained until it had to be removed, piecemeal, in 2015.
128
