Judges and Judiciary
Apr. 5, 2011
Prematurely Attending One’s Own Funeral
What's the connection between Freemasons, Mozart's funeral music and the courts?
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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The opening selection at a recent concert at Disney Hall was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music. Before I tell you about Herbert Glass' program notes on this piece, I mention parenthetically the program notes concerning the last piece on the program, Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major, the Haffner symphony. Appellate lawyer Howard Posner wrote them. According to the blurb, which preceded his comments, Posner play...
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