Overheard in San Francisco: Record Store Edition

A couple months back, Joseph Zitt, who blogs at The Year of Living Musically, wrote the following to me in response to the douchebag post:

I'm the Classical CD Guy at [a major record store] in San Francisco, and lemme tell you, we get all sorts of odd pronunciations and howlers.

My favorite was when a customer came in trying to find something he'd heard on the radio. He had written down what the announcer had said as "Colony: Dry By a Brook." He knew little about it, other than that it was classical.

I managed to narrow down by questioning that it was for a solo instrument (he couldn't remember if it was accompanied), probably stringed, kind of low. He didn't have a vocabulary to say much else about it, except that he said it was, "um... kinda... Jewish?"

The light went on, and I led him to a fortunately loaded and working listening station, where he confirmed by listening that it was, as I had guessed, Kol Nidrei by Bruch.

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