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- Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:37 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: GOPer lies
- Replies: 59
- Views: 23785
Re: GOPer lies
Yawwwnnnnn....
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A scathing indictment...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10433
Re: A scathing indictment...
Oh my! - what a horrible country is the United States! If Jimmy C says so, it must be true that we are bad. So dreadful - and, of course, he knows whereof he speaks. It is to laugh.
- Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:08 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: FANTASIA 2000
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15913
Re: FANTASIA 2000
Haven't seen it and am not really interested. The original post showed a real emotional response to the film. Obviously expressing a genuine feeling and with a reasonable question for others. A post meant to engender a meaningful exchange on an interesting topic. John F cannot control himself on th...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:28 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5048
Re: 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
Somehow, my faith in humanity isn't heightened by people risking their lives to save the lives of animals. Which is the theme of quite a few of those pictures. I'm more impressed by people who make sacrifices to help other people in need, especially people they don't know. Surely that's what humani...
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26476
Re: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
Unlike some guy hearing pastiches that sound vaguely Brucknerian cobbled together from bits and pieces, this work was revelationary to me - a glimpse of what Bruckner was aiming for - what he was facing (spiritually) perhaps - and how well it extended from the first three movements. As Harnoncourt ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:49 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26476
Re: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
There's no need to insult the members. You have your opinion, they have theirs, I have mine. Knowledgeable people can and do disagree about this, both here and at the "Unsung Composers" forum you've linked to. What suffices for you may not suffice for others and certainly doesn't for me. Hey - if t...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26476
Re: The Rattle Bruckner 9th Is Here
For some informed opinions by knowledgeable people who actually have listened (as have I) to the recording, and who have more to say than the above infantile potshots (so predictable) at Rattle, visit: http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,2742.0.html For me, it is sufficient to quote...
- Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:20 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: You'll never guess how I caught Rodelinda
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4232
Re: You'll never guess how I caught Rodelinda
Or half an hour of it, anyway, with apologies in advance to Lenny Goran for the fact that it was not by tuning in at home and giving it my undivided attention at the appointed time. I got a flat tire on the way to church in the town of Warrensburg (where I play the organ for those who do not know)....
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: New Mexico invaded by moths
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3632
Re: New Mexico invaded by moths
Those moths must have been sent by the Republicans. Why else would this epitome of the one-track mind bother to post this irrelevant information?
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG Meet-Up ... wonderful!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15620
Re: CMG Meet-Up ... wonderful!
Great picture - great bridge - great borough.
(One wonders why people shy away from using "me" when it is correct - and preferring, incorrectly, to use the pronoun "I?")
(One wonders why people shy away from using "me" when it is correct - and preferring, incorrectly, to use the pronoun "I?")
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:59 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Harnoncourt Falls in Love with Porgy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8094
Re: Harnoncourt Falls in Love with Porgy
"Gershwin was Russian"
He was born in Brooklyn. Why not then call Copland a "Lithuanian?"
He was born in Brooklyn. Why not then call Copland a "Lithuanian?"
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Has Happened to Saul?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6979
Re: What Has Happened to Saul?
His profile no longer exists. All his posts seem to have vanished.
Surreptitiously, to be sure - but high time this action was taken.
Surreptitiously, to be sure - but high time this action was taken.
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:57 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Our society thrives on embarrassing others It’s time to stop
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9090
Re: Our society thrives on embarrassing others It’s time to stop
The question of the moment - the momentous question - is: Does Saul Chanukah have a job? What does he do with his life - besides flood this site with his monomaniacal screeds? Wouldn't it be interesting to know? Of course, he will respond - as he often does - "none of your business." But I wonder if...
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:56 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: CMG Summit Meeting Today
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8950
- Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Barak Plans Attack on Gaza - It's About Damn Time!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6172
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:07 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Not classical music - but classical formation par excellence
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3082
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:09 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: "Borat" Litigation Alert!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12001
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:01 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Where Have The Rght Wingers Gone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19036
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:23 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Michael Barone article about John Kerry's ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5381
Michael Barone article about John Kerry's ...
...inability to shake the 60s. From US News & World Report: Kerry's Words Betray Democrats' Attitudes "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. " Those two sentences, sp...
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:19 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Where Have The Rght Wingers Gone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19036
- Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:04 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The "slowness" of CMG - explanation.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9849
Thanks for the response. It is surprising that people are reading the archived posts. Nevertheless, if this is the case - perhaps you could somehow compress those files on your server? I honestly don't know what I am talking about but it just seems that you're carrying some baggage which might be af...
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:42 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The "slowness" of CMG - explanation.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9849
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:41 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: THE WIZARD OF OZ
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13175
What a specious argument is presented by this thread... Who cares what Hollywood did or did not select from Baum's original - or what amplifications were added. How many films are literal translations of the book from which they are taken? Very few. The movie is one of the classics of cinema - why g...
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:36 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: If you're at least 50 years old - read this and exult....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12199
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:45 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: If you're at least 50 years old - read this and exult....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12199
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:17 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: If you're at least 50 years old - read this and exult....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12199
- Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:59 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: What Seems Like Fun For Our Troops In Iraq…..
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4808
Re: What Seems Like Fun For Our Troops In Iraq…..
You’d think that after the photographic evidence that backfired on the participants in the Abu-Grab fiasco our soldiers would get the message that maybe it’s not a good idea to videotape anything that’s not done 100% by the book—And while all the participants here are seemingly “Having Fun” it’s ob...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:43 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Chamber music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg on RCA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3947
It never ceases to astound me that this man's music has any glimmer of hope residing in it. Besides the horrors that he suffered under the Soviet Regime, what the above post does not mention is that Weinberg's (Vainberg's) entire family was trapped indoors and burned to death by the Nazis. And yet h...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:02 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Help! can anyone identify this peice of music for me
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3392
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:27 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Recommendation for SACDs?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5344
Mr. Wetmore: There are lots of 'em... I would recommend, for a change of pace, the excellent symphonies written by the conductor Felix Weingartner, on the cpo label. I believe all are in SACD format. The music is unique and truly captivating. Weingartner, through these works, has proven to be one of...
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:35 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Any composers similar in style to Kalinnikov?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13748
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:28 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: A Truly Weird Tort Suit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8065
Well, that paragraph which appears to get under your skin a bit actually was taken from the prologue to the operetta above-mentioned. They were well ahead of their time and were fond of needling the funny ideas they encountered - including, obviously, the possibility of taking normality to extremes ...
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:35 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Help needed / Looking for Music Title!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5767
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:31 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: A Truly Weird Tort Suit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8065
There's nothing at all funny about having a loaded gun trained on you by someone proficient in its use, while being threatened with death if you don't kill him, and working your way out of the dilemma with a positive result. Unquestionably such an event can cause post traumatic stress disorder and ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:15 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: A Truly Weird Tort Suit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8065
And, guess what? There's always an attorney at the ready to pursue these preposterous actions. Hardly nobody today is deemed responsible for their own lives - any emotional tic and one looks to blame someone else - with the assistance, of course, of the ubiquitous negligence attorney. Gilbert & Sull...
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:11 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Bush, Kerry, and respect for the troops
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20428
You'd first need to define for him and all of us that big word you used. We're in awe of your brilliance, and are honoured that you've condescended to truck with us here. Sure, hyperbole is a useful writing tool - everyone here, including your exalted self, uses it. But, let's see how the oracle res...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:34 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Bush, Kerry, and respect for the troops
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20428
Thank God (and the electorate) this man did not win the Presidency. If he had, we'd all be on our prayer rugs a couple of times a day. Chilling. And what exactly do you think we are doing under Bush? Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I meant that, under a Kerry Presidency we'd be speaking Arabic...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:59 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Bush, Kerry, and respect for the troops
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20428
- Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:55 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: ArkivMusic is expanding its market
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6185
I certainly agree with all the above comments. Arkiv's search abilities are excellent, and I, too, use that site for research - but seem to wind up buying from CD Universe. CDU's search function is OK. I usually use the "advanced search" and 99% of the time come up with what I am looking for. And, a...
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:50 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Naxos: A Rheinberger release, kind of a "sleeper."
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2985
Those works are very nice. There is a Hyperion (66883) which does them proud. But, for those who don't know much about Rheinberger's music, the Naxo price will be attractive. If anyone wishes to hear more of this wonderful composer, I would recommend his Symphony in F "Florentine" and his chamber mu...
- Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:07 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: ArkivMusic is expanding its market
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6185
- Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:14 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Neglected Masterworks of American Composers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14348
Alberich: I thought it was clear that the question applied to American composers. If not, I'll make it more clear now. Can anyone think of other works by American composers that are buried in obscurity and ripe for discovery? Pizza: I'll respond despite your rudeness. Nicholas Flagello was born in ...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:46 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Neglected Masterworks of American Composers
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14348
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:41 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Win-Win If He Runs
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13100
Okay. One, who had far more bona fides in 1976 than Obama does now or will have in 08 or 12. Bona fides? Since when do bona fides mean anything? Here is being discussed the possible Presidential campaign of a person who has, what?, two years' experience in national government? Two years? And he is ...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:51 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Firearms and the NBA
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10846
Back to the original topic - The passing of Red Auerbach, juxtaposed with this (ridiculous) discussion, causes one to realize how far this league has fallen in quality and fan appeal. In Auerbach's days it was a beautifully-conceived team game, populated with informed, educated, well-spoken players ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:37 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Best Recording for tchaikovsky sympony
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24075
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:29 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Greatest Austro-Germanic composer of High-Late Romanticism?
- Replies: 113
- Views: 38728
Re: Greatest Austro-Germanic composer of High-Late Romantici
Yes, true - Mahler was into hydraulics.popagano wrote:I'm curious who you think the greastest Austro-Germanic composer is of the High-Late Romantic Period.
(I personally would say Gustav Mahler, but he can be very depressing to listen to, and you might need a brake from him once in a while.)
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:27 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: What happened to Good Music Guide forum?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13438
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:59 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Best Recording for tchaikovsky sympony
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24075
Agree on the Mravinsky set of 4,5,6 as first choice. However, and off the subject a bit - what comments do we have about the Bernstein/NYPO Tchaikovsky 6th on DGG. The late (1980s) performance - one which Maestro Bernstein stretched the Pathetique to almost an hour's time. The last movement is almos...
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:49 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: What happened to Good Music Guide forum?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13438
What happened to Good Music Guide forum?
Unable to raise this website
for two days now. Anyone
experiencing the same?
Have they played a final note
or perhaps simply server probs?
for two days now. Anyone
experiencing the same?
Have they played a final note
or perhaps simply server probs?