Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 15, 2002

That is my dad! I thought I was the only teenager in the late 1960s/early 1970s who had to ask their father to turn down the music, especially during certain Wagner bits.

Also, he had rigged up his hifi system to turn on at 6am and turn off at 10pm. If he was not playing his LPs (heavy with opera), it was tuned to the local classical music station.

Le sigh. Yes, I did go see Wagner’s Ring Cycle when I was in college, and thoroughly loved it. Some things did rub off.