1. Caruso was the first Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. And so he came to America.
2. Stradivarius sold his violins on the open market with no strings attached (см. далее. В словаре не раз встречается данная идиома).
3. The principle singer of the 19th-centurv opera was called pre-Madonna (prima donna).
4. At one time, singers had to use musicians to accompany them. Since synthesizers came along, singers can now play with themselves (play with oneself – заниматься мастурбацией, т.е., дословно, играть с собой).
5. All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know exactly what they sounded like because there are no known descendants (потомки).
6. Music: sung by two people at the same time is called a duel (a duo). If they sing without music, it is called Acapulco ( a capella).
7. Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing. (Low sort – низкий сорт, низкосортная музыка. Имеется в виду, что контральто – это женский низкий голос).
8. A harp is a nude piano. (Арфа – это голое (раздетое) пианино).
9. An oboe is an American tramp. (written by a British student).
(По-американски ‘бродяга’ – hobo).
10. A Stradivarius is a prehistoric animal.
11. An opera is a song of bigly size.
12. An interval in music is the distance from one piano to the next.
13. Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you'd better not try to sing. (И действительно, refrain – 1. воздерживаться от чего-л., сдерживаться 2. припев, рефрен).
14. I know what a sextet is, but I'd rather not say (ложная этимологизация).
15. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present.
(spinster – старая дева. Здесь, конечно, надо писать spinet – клавесин).
16. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.
17. Beethoven wrote three symphonies: the Third, the Fifth, and the Ninth. He wrote music even though he was deaf. Beethoven was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. Do you know that if Beethoven were alive today, he would be celebrating the 165th anniversary of his death?
Pullet Surprising Literature¹
1. Mr. Murdstone treated David Copperfield's Mother like a very terranical mail shovenist. (tyrannical male chauvinist).
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, while his parents were traveling abroad.
3. Emily Dickinson was a wreck loose in society (recluse – отшельник).
4. Anton Chekhov was the son of Russian pheasants (peasants).
5. In Of Human Bondage, Philip stays up all night studding with Mildred (конечно, studying; stud – жеребец, самец, соответственно, to stud означает…).
6. Suicide was a way of life for Hemingway.
¹обыгр. Pulitzer prize
7. In A Streetcar Named Desire («Трамвай Желание» У.Теннеси), the climax is when Blanche goes to bed with Stella's husband. At the end, Blanche goes to a mental institution, where she discovers what life is really like.
8. Lord of the Flies is a story about a bunch of boys on an uninhibited desert island (uninhabited – необитаемый, а вот uninhibited – вседозволенный, т.е. остров, где все дозволено).
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