Did any of you read this quote posted today at Nicolas Cage Quotes?

[On his connection to his ancestors]'I feel that it began with Carmine Coppola. We didn't come from money. He came here because he could play the flute and he joined Toscanini no less, Toscanini's orchestra and was the first chair flautist. The most beautiful thing that happened, just as a side track to that, but about two years ago I was sleeping. The TV was on, it was the arts channel, I didn't know and I heard this flute and I woke up. It was my grandfather playing the flute and it was the Dance of the Blessed Spirits. I'm getting chills thinking about it. It was like he was talking to me. It was amazing. He was the beginning of our history in the arts and then he married a Pennino, my grandmother's family who was writing songs and he was a composer. Then from there, it just kept going. Francis and Sofia and Talia and everybody.'

It is a great quote and what a moment for Nic to have experienced! It made me interesting in looking for this piece of music. Here is Arturo Toscanini at Carnegy Hall conducting The Dance of the Blessed Spirits.