M & G

[Max Nemtsov]

no, they are not, they just rhyme nicely in this diminutive form
it's actually Mikhail (Michael) and Grigoriy (Gregory)

On 18.06.2014 9:31, Michael Bailey wrote:
> I was thinking Misha & Grisha might be a proverbial pairing in 
> Russian, like Mutt & Jeff or Frick & Frack or Mike & Ike
>
> Google bears me out...Joseph Wambaugh used the names in _The Black 
> Marble_ e.g.
>
> Here's a pic of brothers w/those names:
> http://www.centropa.org/cs/photo/bella-kisselgof-s-mothers-brothers-misha-and-grisha-rivkin
>
> A-and from a thread on maestronet:
>
> http://www.maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/330273-viola-players-talking-during-their-opera-performance/ 
> and I quote
>
> BTW, if anyone wants to read a funny book, It's called "Philharmonic," 
> if I recall.  A worthless novel otherwise, but hilarious in 
> incorporating many of the legendary stories of musicians in 
> orchestras.  Including, Misha and Grisha, who sit back a ways in the 
> 1st violins so it is hard for the conductor to see them, and are just 
> clowns continually amusing themselves.  And the oboist who goes crazy 
> and flushes all the music for the wind section down the toilet of a 
> high school gym where the orchestra is playing a run-out concert.
>
>
> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Wonderful find....I just picked up a dime copy of the paperback
>     Octopussy but haven't read it--but for the opening page.
>
>     Sent from my iPad
>
>     On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:56 PM, "Michael Bailey" <mikebailey at gmx.us>
>     wrote:
>
>     > So there's a Misha and Grisha in AtD and Bleeding Edge but also
>     in Octopussy (1983)
>     >
>     > --
>     > Sent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my
>     brevity. - Pynchon-l /http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l 

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