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Huckleberry

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...

Huckleberry

This had to be, Karl.

For this alone I have emerged during the wee hours from my self-sentenced solitary confinement.

Sir Lance and Contessa, a sagacious decision.

Huckleberry

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...

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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...

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Recently acquired their 12-CD set entitled "Minnesota Orchestra at One Hundred" - quite a history there.

Huckleberry

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 ...

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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,...

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Most of us, I think, admire such courage. It is an enormous pity that, at the same time, we fear for the woman's welfare and, sad to say, even her life.

Gandhi, Sadat, and Rabin are excellent examples of people who were punished for being "too moderate." There are scores of other examples.

Huckleberry

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...

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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-...

Huckleberry

Karl Henning, you do us proud!

Is is possible for us to $BUY$ a CD featuring your compositions?

And do let us know how the Lenten Evening is received.

Huckleberry

By strange coincidence, MAZEPPA is being performed by Toronto's Opera in Concert as well. A neighbour from directly across the street (no, not SueCan!) is singing in it. (He's a psychiatrist by day and an opera singer by night

).

Why Mazeppa all of a sudden, I wonder.

Huckleberry

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, ...

Huckleberry

I agree, SueCan. And one could throw in some colour coding to indicate details such as licit love, illicit love (lust), unconsumated adultery (cf. Un Ballo), etc.

And solid lines when the love or lust is heavy, and broken lines when it is waning, and so on.

Huckleberry

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...

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And how dreadful for the little boy. However, if he has his parents' genes, he is probably made of sterner stuff.

This news has bothered me all day.

Huckleberry

Since it is up for grabs, I think that I'll have the last word.

Huckleberry

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, ...

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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 ...

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Higher education and the country need feisty, manly sparkplugs like Prof. Mansfield. Harvard has him, Pace Law School has me. :) If we can just keep you quiet and resting long enough . . . :wink: **** I am slowly losing my mind now. It matters not, dear Ralph, as long as you are manly. :lol:

Huckleberry

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...

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Thank you, Contessa and Sir Lance.

(One of the remarkable aspects of the CMGFs is that the moderators also contribute to threads, where appropriate. I'm sure that many here agree.

)

Huckleberry

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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MaestroDJS wrote:
Huckleberry wrote:Similarly, after a full day conjugating verbs, someone asked me to continue with nouns, but I declined.

In English-speaking countries we barely decline (except morally, of course). In Georgia they decline ergatively.

Huckleberry

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 ...

Huckleberry

And hey, did I tell you about my Ravels during my last Faure into a Debussy? Well, I Satie on the ...

Huckleberry

jbuck919 wrote:
Jack Kelso wrote:gotta GOUNOD....

Jack
I presume to use the Debussy, otherwise known as the John Cage.

Didn't know I had it in me to pun Bach to Bach, did you?

Some say WaterCloset, and others, WaterLoo.

Huckleberry

Excellent, Dave!!!

May I suggest an alternative radio show entitled

Die Meisterstyber und D. Swansong?

Huckleberry

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Corlyss_D wrote:
Huckleberry wrote:I do have to escape periodically to places like Alexandria (VA!),
Now hows come you wait till I leave the area to visit????

How comes ya leave before I visit, huh???!

Huckleberry

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...

Huckleberry

Ted, I have just encountered this thread and am relieved that, a week later, you are in excellent spirits and have been running up and down stairs (and the Catskills next), while some of us might have been whining about a stubbed toe or two.

Nicely done, Ted.

Huckleberry

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...

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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...

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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...

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Lance, I've always had a secret soft soft for Mr. Wile E. Coyote, but I agree that a Road Runner connection would be much safer and less crooked.

Allen, do send Ralph some edible flowers instead ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Ralph wrote:
Huckleberry wrote:Aren't you the same Lilith, who is Owlice, who is Alice or Ellis? I seem to remember something of that sort from many months ago.
*****

Lilith isn't Owlice.

It's a relief that Lilith is Lilith.

But are you saying that there are two of them then?

Huckleberry

Werner wrote:Now I have something to try to live up to!

Easy. When I visit you and Sir Lance in NY State, you must be on your best behaviour.

Just pulling your leg, as you know. Bad behaviour in a person like you (if indeed it could transpire!) would go unnoticed.

Huckleberry

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...

Huckleberry

Aren't you the same Lilith, who is Owlice, who is Alice or Ellis?

I seem to remember something of that sort from many months ago.

Huckleberry

Dearest Werner,

Oh, I've been asleep at the switch. Happy 84th to you!

Your reputation preceded you (via two well-liked sources), and the real thing has turned out to be just as warm and wonderful!

Moi

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