Having almost had one of my accounts (not here) hacked a couple'times, I do support the salute policy, but I can't hear the word salute right now without thinking of a piece of music by that title by Charles-Valentin Alkan, a very weird 19th-century composer-pianist. (I haven't heard it yet, I think... I'll check; if it's at our local library I probably have, once..., though I've heard much else by him.) Descriptions of the piece suggest that if anything else it's one of his -less-... normal ones. :) So I hope to hear it sometime. (Though one googled article is dismissive:
"We pass over Op. 41, a group of three fantasies, as offering nothing new, as well as Op. 45, the Salut, cendre du pauvre-a paraphrase. "
(This is a reprint of a 1924 article by H. H. Bellamann for the Musical Quarterly, accessible in full- online I mean- to people like me with university IDs but not to the general public. But yes, the google search did turn up that excerpt.)
Off to have my tea and rest; I know why the cag I wasn't feeling so very well yesterday...
