3 = B D : the so-called Nadia (with a British accent) of Boulanger (with a French accent)
Por favor, io can nyet verstehen. Explanação, s'il vous plait?
Your polyglot may be even more appropriate than you intended!
13 = B D ---> 13 = Baker's Dozen
One band on a very old humor record (The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival) has a couple of ersatz German Professors talking about music.
Twelve-tone music.
By a fictitious composer named Bruno Heinz Jaja, who wrote only in pure twelve-tone. (That's pronounced "Ya-ya," in ersatz German.)
Never tempted, like some of the Franzoesiche Komponisten French composers, to write with thirteen tones.
No, said Jaja, that was the Baker's Dozen, the Nadia of Boulanger. (Nadir=lowest point, sounds like "nadia" in British-accented-fake-German); boulanger is French for baker; Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher and conductor of some repute*. Triple pun; three languages, no less. Ha-ha. Or maybe that's Jaja, only in Spanish. Quadruple pun.
*"So far as musical pedagogy is concerned — and by extension of musical creation — Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived". (from www.nadiaboulanger.org)
I guess you had to be there. The sketch is really quite funny, as is the whole record. It's Peter Shickele/PDQ Bach, British style. There were three such annual festivals, each recorded, and then Hoffnung (the Hirschfeld of his time and nation) died suddenly. R.I.P both of them.
Edit: The specific reference is to
"Bruno Heinz JAJA - Punkt Contrapunkt [9’04"]
Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar
The performance of this work is preceded by a discussion and analysis of it by Dr Klaus Domgraf-Fassbaender and Prof. von der Vogelweide."
See dxb's URL below !
