R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles is composer Gustav Mahler’s eighth cousin four times removed. So says Norman Lebrecht in his new book Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World.
R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles is composer Gustav Mahler’s eighth cousin four times removed.
That's funny - she doesn't look Jewish at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd he didn't look very black. How weird is that?
ReplyDeleteThere must be a booty joke in there somewhere.
ReplyDeleteKindertotenbootylieder?
No, so wrong. Anyone else?
Who was it that said Mahler's music isn't as bad as it sounds?
ReplyDelete"Who was it that said Mahler's music isn't as bad as it sounds?"
ReplyDeleteClose, but no cigar. That would be Mark Twain on Richard Wagner. (http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/comment/murderingsilence.html)
Am still trying for a booty joke but, I don't know, there's something about Gustav. Doesn't lend himself to booty.
"Gustav doesn't lend himself to booty."
ReplyDeleteThat's the start of something.