Music Of The Great Composers --

Hector Berlioz-Part 12 Adelina Patti requested him to write something in her album. He wrote: Oportet pati (one must suffer!) and as she asked him what it meant, he answered it was kitchen Latin and meant: Apportez le pate (bring on the pie! ) When his opera The Trojans was first produced a friend came to him confidentially and told him. Old fellow, do something to please me - suppress 'Mercury.' Those wings on his head and his heels are really comic..