Felix

During my first year at SCC in Costa Mesa, Calif., I sang a duet with, I think her name was Becky Olsen. It was a song by Felix Mendelssohn. Becky seemed to have dropped out of college during the first year possibly to get married and I never saw her again. I do not know what happened to Becky. So why this bizarre rant about Felix Mendelssohn? We are talking about 19th century people who are now dead, very dead, and anyway it was only a song, an assigned song. That would be like Miss Pilarinos of Louisiana ranting about Abraham Lincoln. Why get so puffed up and peeved about people who lived so long ago and things that you cannot change and maybe were not so bad? Mendelssohn is not even a part of our history here in the United States. It is all about Poland and Germany and all those places that we Americans left behind a long time ago for something better than to live off the laurels of a faded 19th century European glory. Anyway, it is all just a matter of history. It has a place in the history books but really it should not be confused with current events, hopefully.