TOD: Funny thing, Rodzinski. In one of my commercial flights to an overseas duty station, I was listening to classical music with the headphones they gave me, and I heard The Three-Cornered Hat and enjoyed it a lot. Before I could wonder who it was by, the announcer told me the title and the composer!
One of the great classical discoveries in my life was the music of Edward Elgar. Like most people, I knew about Pomp and Circumstance and who wrote it (having played clarinet in band from 5th grade on). When I saw "Young Winston" is the early 70s, I was struck by a piece of music that played as Winston and his mother were getting into a carriage following his father's funeral. The piece was part of the Nimrod suite from "Enigma Variations" by Elgar. Less than a year later, I was in London over Thanksgiving and found Sir John Barbirolli's recording of the piece. I was hooked and remain so.
