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- Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Karl's Out in the Sun at New England Conservatory
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4047
Karl's Out in the Sun at New England Conservatory
If every dog has his or her day, Karl is enjoying a whole week - nay, a veritable month or two - in the sun! :D :D :D The NEC Wind Ensemble is now performing Karl's composition, Out in the Sun. Concerts for Thursday, November 9 The NEC Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Charles Peltz, perform Kev...
- Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:01 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Karl Henning appointed as CMG's Composer-in-Residence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5092
- Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:09 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Young Nova Scotian Soprano to be Soloist with Vienna Opera
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1073
Young Nova Scotian Soprano to be Soloist with Vienna Opera
Somehow I have never heard of Jane Archibald prior to this new item from the CBC website. Does anyone in this forum know of her? Truro soprano will be soloist with Vienna Opera Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:48:11 EST CBC Arts An up-and-coming soprano from Truro, N.S., has landed a role as a soloi...
- Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:08 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Minnesota Orchestra performances online - free!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1981
Recently acquired their 12-CD set entitled "Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred" - quite a history there. Huck, What may be my favorite performance of Mahler's fourth is in that set I believe. With De Waart conducting. YES! It's the Mahler 1. (Barry, for some peculiar reason I, too, sometimes say Ma...
- Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:10 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Minnesota Orchestra performances online - free!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1981
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:28 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Ted Baylis Undergoes Heart Procedures
- Replies: 76
- Views: 15248
As one who has never been sick a day in my life and was not even sick before the angioplasties, this was the worst week ever (On a physical level) I developed a severe allergic reaction to the Plavix—an drug that prevents thrombosis in the stent (blockage by scabs of blood as it were) There was an ...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Gergiev's Ambassadors: Russian Lieder at GlennGouldStudio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3179
Re: Gergiev's Ambassadors: Russian Lieder at GlennGouldStudi
Though Gergiev might be a little under the weather (see Music Chatterbox section), his ambassadors have been busy. Here is a concert that I attended at the Glenn Gould Studio on March 5. The young Russian baritone was a star (and he knew it), small in build but with a voice that was almost booming,...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:23 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Remarkable Article About Muslim Moderate Physician
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1964
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Evensong in Boston, 19 March 06
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16831
Karl Henning, you do us proud! Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions? Thank you, Huck ! It isn't quite 'featuring' . . . but the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble has a 25th-anniversary disc, which includes my modest Alleluia in D Karl, I have bookmarked the page. When do you thin...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Tafelmusik: Rehearsal of Mozart PC 24 with Robert Levin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4221
Sir Lance, somehow I knew that if anyone in this forum had heard about Robert Levin's hand-made piano (or pianoforte), it would be you! I loved the sound of this new-old instrument. A couple had constructed it, and the woman was at the rehearsal. She was in charge of the dynamics of the piano vis-a-...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:20 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Evensong in Boston, 19 March 06
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16831
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Critic: Don't Miss Met Opera's Spectacular Flop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2792
- Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Gergiev's Ambassadors: Russian Lieder at GlennGouldStudio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3179
Gergiev's Ambassadors: Russian Lieder at GlennGouldStudio
Though Gergiev might be a little under the weather (see Music Chatterbox section), his ambassadors have been busy. Here is a concert that I attended at the Glenn Gould Studio on March 5. The young Russian baritone was a star (and he knew it), small in build but with a voice that was almost booming, ...
- Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:24 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Making an Opera's Plot Understandable
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9626
- Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:12 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Music Teachers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5467
And Huckleberry, I gather we're neighbours?! Yes indeed. And here I was, imagining that I was Huckleberry of No Fixed Address. :D When Sir Lance visits I might have the honour of meeting you! (I've told him that he could leave his trusty steed or his golden Camry (whichever he chooses as his mode o...
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:45 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Dana Reeve Dies at 45
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1198
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:30 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Making an Opera's Plot Understandable
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9626
- Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:34 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Manliness
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3830
Some here will benefit from Hollywood lessons on manliness. You might want to stock up on Robert Mitchum . I must say I kinda like guys who were unabashedly and unapologetically manly, like Mitchum, Lancaster, Wayne, Douglas, Peck, Stewart, Cooper, Cagney, Garfield, Newman, Russell, Elliot, Selek, ...
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:41 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Manliness
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3830
Re: Manliness
Calling All Hombres A Harvard sage makes the case for manliness. BY NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY Saturday, March 4, 2006 12:01 a.m. Of course, Mr. Mansfield doesn't need to go to the movies to see how men and women behave today. He has the classroom for that. Though he thinks that his female students have ...
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:29 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Manliness
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3830
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Bellini's Norma or Berg's Wozzeck? Pray, tell me ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3551
These are both masterpieces but they are world’s apart from each other in musical and dramatic aesthetic. Norma is primarily focussed on the singing, whereas Wozzeck is primarily concerned with the drama; the musical score of each serves a different purpose. SNIP So, if you haven’t seen a lot of op...
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:38 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Bellini's Norma or Berg's Wozzeck? Pray, tell me ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3551
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:01 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: A TRIBUTE to a FORMER CMG MEMBER/MUSIC LOVER par excellence
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1435
A TRIBUTE to a FORMER CMG MEMBER/MUSIC LOVER par excellence
My Dear Music-Loving Friends, Here am I, Huckleberry of no fixed address, short of a long history in this forum, both blessed and burdened with a passion for music, learning, and living, and truly delighted and honoured to invite you to view some of the literary tributes paid to your former associat...
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:30 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Bellini's Norma or Berg's Wozzeck? Pray, tell me ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3551
Bellini's Norma or Berg's Wozzeck? Pray, tell me ...
So the Canadian Opera Company is performing both of these at the end of March. And I have to choose to go to one of these two performances. Never mind who is singing what or who is directing what, at least for the moment. My reasoning is as follows: I know that I like the music in Norma , but will I...
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:14 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
Spelt is a grain. "Spelt is a grain," Tom Swift stated huskily. :D Some 800 years ago Hildegard von Bingen, (St.Hildegard) wrote about spelt: "The spelt is the best of grains. It is rich and nourishing and milder than other grain. It produces a strong body and healthy blood to those who eat it and ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:07 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:11 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
Excellent, Dave!!! May I suggest an alternative radio show entitled Die Meisterstyber und D. Swansong? :lol: That's a jolly good idea. I'm very flattered indeed. One correction, however: My Czech family name is spelled (or spelt) Stybr , because my ancestors emigrated from Prague to Chicago in the ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:29 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
- Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:19 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
- Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:33 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Apples and Oranges
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4172
- Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:11 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: So What's So Great About Ralph?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8219
Re: So What's So Great About Ralph?
Seriously. I've never met this man (though I assume his and "Alban Berg's" offer to host me for dinner is still open - even if now it might be alfalfa sprout salad and soybean milk. But eveyone here on the forum seems just short of worshipful whenever speaking about him, in a way that seems often b...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Back to Lincoln Center-A Doubleheader on a Cold Sunday
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2761
Re: Back to Lincoln Center-A Doubleheader on a Cold Sunday
In the morning I attended my subsscription Coffee Concert with Irish In the afternoon I Musici (from Rome) performed an all-Mozart concert with pianist Stephen Hough doing a great job with the composer's Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major, K.449. He's an outstanding musician whom we see too seld...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Ted Baylis Undergoes Heart Procedures
- Replies: 76
- Views: 15248
Ted, it is so very sweet of you to write to us at this time. Yes, I know of both Plavix and Prednisone. I haven't heard of Ticlid; it must be fairly new. Thank goodness for the multiple options that exist now! Keep thinking of how wondrous it will be to up and about in the Catskills a few weeks henc...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:00 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Peter Schenkman Dead (CMG's Cello Specialist)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5897
MEA CULPA!!!!! I composed the short tribute in the wee hours of the morning, after a long phone conversation with Sir Lance, and claimed that Peter was CMG's Winds Specialist when, of course, I know that he is the resident Cello Expert. Blame it on Morpheus's leaden mace or temporary insanity. :shoc...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Peter Schenkman Dead (CMG's Cello Specialist)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5897
Lance , I put a note in the Toronto Star's Obituary Guest Book, on behalf of CMG - it's the only one there. People can use this link to arrive at "View Guest Book". Link to Guest Book I threw in an email address so that the message wouldn't look bogus. (Messages are screened by staff.) Edited by Co...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:55 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Ben Heppner & Mayor Sullivan: Come&Play in Vancouver
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1282
Re: Ben Heppner & Mayor Sullivan: Come&Play in Vanco
How comes ya leave before I visit, huh???!Corlyss_D wrote:Now hows come you wait till I leave the area to visit????Huckleberry wrote:I do have to escape periodically to places like Alexandria (VA!),
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:09 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Ben Heppner & Mayor Sullivan: Come&Play in Vancouver
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1282
Ben Heppner & Mayor Sullivan: Come&Play in Vancouver
I do have to escape periodically to places like Costa Rica, Nicaragua (soon!) and Alexandria (VA!), but Canada is really not half bad. Do let me know if you are ever in Toronto and think of visiting Vancouver in 2010. Here's an account of the closing ceremonies from cbc.com: Olympic flag passed ont...
- Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:54 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Ted Baylis Undergoes Heart Procedures
- Replies: 76
- Views: 15248
- Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:40 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Peter Schenkman Dead (CMG's Cello Specialist)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5897
Lance, too, has asked me to look into this, Corlyss. I've just finished talking to Conrad Blomendal (another cellist in the Glenn Gould circle). Conrad is supposed be rehearsing tomorrow with Arthur Ozolins, Peter's friend, and will try to find out what happened. I've left it like that (don't want t...
- Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:02 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Peter Schenkman Dead (CMG's Cello Specialist)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5897
Peter lived in my neighbourhood, around three minutes away from me on foot. In fact, I'd park my car right in front of his house on occasion. I have to say that I'm very shocked by this news. We exchanged a few emails, mostly about local musicians. A few months ago, we talked on the phone for a long...
- Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Tafelmusik: Rehearsal of Mozart PC 24 with Robert Levin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4221
Is that your first rehearsal? :D Don't you love them? I sure do. Yes, I remember a post that you wrote about attending rehearsals. I used to go to Canadian Opera Company rehearsals. Now time is an issue. This is my first rehearsal for donors only! I'm not a Tafelmusik donor, but my tenant's parents...
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:28 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Lance is FINALLY on HIGH-SPEED Internet!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3492
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:15 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: The Elder Wisdom Circle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1197
Hey Gary, these were very enlightening. I didn't think I would, but I read all of the letters and responses. They are wonderful! I especially liked the one about how angry and bitter people are unlikely to change, and the best one can do is to either avoid them, or, if they are "unavoidable", to wor...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:31 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: Tafelmusik: Rehearsal of Mozart PC 24 with Robert Levin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4221
Tafelmusik: Rehearsal of Mozart PC 24 with Robert Levin
You have to have been there to witness the most exciting rehearsal ever. Robert Levin played on his hand-crafted fortepiano with great panache, and talked to the orchestra with a voice that laughed, tickled, implored, and praised. He chuckled like a little boy when things went well ... Apart from a ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:21 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: While Our Soldiers Die in Iraq......
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7939
Huckleberry ..... Weren't you known as Smuckleberry and Winkleberry in a previous life? I'm sure that if your allusions made sense, as they might have in my previous life as a double half-wit, I'd find you witty. :wink: Ah, never you mind. Sleep tight and thank Dame Fortune that you are simply Lili...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:32 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: While Our Soldiers Die in Iraq......
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7939
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:09 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: WERNER ISLER: Belated 84th birthday greetings!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4021
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:23 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Making an Opera's Plot Understandable
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9626
Amen! Wagner's absurd plots, mostly devoid of meaningful actions (I except Meistersinger), are based on a simple premise - the heroine must die at the end of Act III no matter what, and often the hero also. If the heroine does not die, she must fall into a swoon which is indistinguishable from deat...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:02 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: While Our Soldiers Die in Iraq......
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7939
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:40 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: WERNER ISLER: Belated 84th birthday greetings!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4021