Rosemary Brown

For my mother, that would be very out of character.

But yes, we are talking about a lady named Rosemary Brown, who this essentially happened to or happened through, depending on how you view this story.

Rosemary Brown was a British woman who, Seemingly very normal, like by all accounts, normal middle class British lady who suddenly started claiming that she was channeling great composers and playing these new pieces that they were dictating to her.

We're talking Beethoven, Liszt, Bach, like all the great Chopin.

There's a whole bunch of them that she claimed she was channeling.

Now, it's not that she doesn't have any training or experience, but it's very, very weird.

A lot of people are scratching their chins over this one and going like, well, I don't really believe in ghosts, but I also don't have a great explanation for how she's able to do this.

So it's an interesting story, and we're going to talk about Rosemary Brown, the, I guess, for lack of a better term, musical medium.

Hello, Seekers.

All right, so a couple of weeks ago, we went over Rosemary Brown and her declaration that dead composers were relaying their latest musical creations through her.

In fact, if you joined us for Spin and Spells this past...

Monday you will have actually heard the LP that she came out with because I tracked it down and I bought it and I played it for everybody and it's pretty good I gotta say I'm actually rather impressed but anyway her whole declaration that that people like Brahms and Bach and whatnot Beethoven were all reaching out to her from beyond the veil and giving her new music got me wondering about what other things have been, quote unquote, created by the dead.

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Anyway, last week, If you remember, we talked about Rosemary Brown, the British medium who claimed that some of history's greatest composers were still making music long after they died.

According to Brown, people like Franz Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, and Beethoven would show up and give her new compositions, sometimes dictating the music to her and sometimes directing her hands at the piano.

Whether you believe any of that was actually happening is obviously the big question, but something about that story stuck with me.