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Entry of the Gladiators! (thelemmy.club)
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[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know, I don't know if it's just prejudice from how established it is for clowns, but that opening is so clownish it hurts.

tbqh, a lot of that late 19th century orchestral music sounds so bombastic that it loops around into being outright silly.

But orchestral music recovered

this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
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