I got this link from REG several days ago, but I didn't get around to looking at it till tonight. I only knew Dudley Moore from some of the Hollywood comedies he did in the 1970s and 1980s. I vaguely recall knowing that he was a musician, but I never knew he did this sort of humor.

Probably it's funny only to those who are familiar with Benjamin Britten's vocal music, but I think a few of my readers fit that description. Presumably it's even funnier if you're familiar with Peter Pears' singing, but since I'm not I wouldn't know.

I'm not much of a fan of Britten. I'm not quite sure why. I got a clue about four and a half years ago while attending a performance of Albert Herring at the San Francisco Conservatory. I was there because I knew several members of the cast from having worked with them elsewhere, though none were close friends. The one whom I probably new best had a girlfriend whom I had met before (more like a wife, but as a same-sex couple they weren't legally married), and I ended up sitting next to her. After some preliminary waffling, we each admitted to the other that we don't generally like Britten.

"Britten is like jazz," she told me, "it's just a whole lot of aimless noodling around."

I don't much like jazz either.

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