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Check out the US 99 menu above for links to information about US Highway 99, after which the US 99 BBS is named.
Be sure to click on the Amateur Radio menu item above for packet BBSes, packet software, packet organizations, as well as packet how-to's. Also included is links to local and some not-so-local Amateur Radio Clubs.
I am am Andrew Lloyd Weber afficionado ... I think he's a musical
genius just as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms etc were ... I'm stopping short
for Mozart, that's another category.
When they had the 25th anniversary performance of Phantom of the Opera
in London's Royal Albert Hall, my daughter and I had tickets costing hundreds of pounds each ... and well worth it. We went to Broadway to watch his work, Hamburg, other places. Even contemplated Melbourne ...
but the plane tickets were too expensive.
Anyway, the story about ALW's cat is authentic, she destroyed the
entire score of "Love Never Dies" which was stored, without backup somewhere, on his Clavinova. That's how we know he doesn't score on
paper anymore.
So Yamaha engineers were flown in and his instrument was disassembled
to see what traces might be left in the chips and a substantial amount
was recuperated. He still had to rewrite several portions, bridges etc
... There was no orchestral scoring involved.
"Love Never Dies" had a short carreer, 6 months in London, 6 months in Melbourne and Brisbane, 1 month in Copenhagen and 1 month in Hamburg.
The public loved it, the critics destroyed it and the financial backers withdrew fearing for their investment. I saw it in London and Hamburg, with my daughter, of course ... a masterpiece, thanks to the cat.
With his latest piece "Cinderella" the cat was nowhere near and he
daily backed up his work.
Some trivia about data-retrieval: little is it known that about 80% of
all data on the computer discs that went down when the WTC towers collapsed eventually was recovered ... and that was "a lot".