[net.music.classical] Words for music

bell@aussie.DEC (Peter Bell, CSS/SNA, Sydney Australia) (09/24/85)

I heard of some people setting J.S. BACH's Sleepers Awake to words.

One section ran:

"Don't use the Box like Virgil Fox...."

Peter

crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (09/25/85)

In article <555@decwrl.UUCP> bell@aussie.DEC (Peter Bell, CSS/SNA, Sydney Australia) writes:
>I heard of some people setting J.S. BACH's Sleepers Awake to words.
>
>One section ran:
>
>"Don't use the Box like Virgil Fox...."

This is just a guess, but are you sure it wasn't 

  ``Don't use the Vox like Virgil Fox...''?

   (May he rest in peace.)
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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