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- Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:59 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Box sets explosion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12789
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:54 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How ridiculous is Harry Potter anyway?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13035
Re: How ridiculous is Harry Potter anyway?
I look forward to reading the Harry Potter series sometime. It's very encouraging to know that millions of children have the imaginations and attention spans to read long books. It's also good to know that books are still written that appeal to both young and old like many of the books we now consid...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are You Watching and/or Reading?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 83212
Recently I read Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises . Fitzgerald was, in my opinion, the more insightful writer, though this is probably his weakest novel, while The Sun was certainly one of Hemingway's very best efforts. I tried to reread For Whom the Bell Tolls...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical Music Stars
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12608
Let’s face it, it’s a threat to one’s self image as a person possessing superior taste and special knowledge when an artist becomes widely popular. That artist MUST be inferior if those sorts of people enjoy him, right? Best to declare him "shallow" or "superficial" and get that feeling of comfort b...
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Some general questions from a classical noobie
- Replies: 51
- Views: 18990
I find that the minuette movements of classical symphonies invariably become tiresome and often punch the forward button to the next movement. I should program them out. Sometimes I listen to single movements - the first movement of Mahler's 9th, for example. String quartet recordings are problemati...
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:55 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Starbucks
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10824
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Will Happen to My Wonderful Library?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10338
In a manner of speaking. A young fellow came in April to tile my foyer. He was wired up to his Ipod so I asked what he was listening to. He replyed that he downloaded books on tape - all manner of books, but especially history, biography, science, and other non-fiction - and put them on his Ipod to...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What Will Happen to My Wonderful Library?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10338
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. -Charles Lamb I buy a lot of used books, many are around 100 years old. Somehow, after a...
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Trademark Concertgebouw resonance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4884
I attended three concerts there (two by the house orchestra and one by the Netherlands Philharmonic) and was happy to confirm that the sound I was hearing on records was for real. Philips engineers captured that "golden" sound over and over again in analog recordings from the Sixties through the ear...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:42 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Sheherazade recommendation
- Replies: 46
- Views: 22897
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:38 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: High Fidelity - The Movie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11984
Think the music of Fleetwood Mac with the occasional power riff, and lyrics that evoke an ethos of early pioneer days. Sorry, but I can't help thinking of that line from the movie spoken by Dick (played superbly by Todd Lousio): "She's kind of Sheryl Crow-ish crossed with a post-Partridge Family pr...
- Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: KRAZY KAT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7474
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:16 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: More on the new seven wonders
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8977
- Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Schumann's Orchestral Works
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17623
Was that before or after Harry James left?Fugu wrote:I like the ... Goodman sets.
I listen to Zinman's earlier set with the Baltimore Symphony on Telarc most often. I also have Haitink's which is very well played but suffers somewhat from the rather thin sound that many early digital recordings exhibited.
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: NY Philharmonic Hires MY First Choice for Music Director
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12241
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: High Fidelity - The Movie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11984
However, and I have mentioned this before, there's seems to be a breath of fresh air in popular music lately. I have the same impression from listening to XM Radio's "Indie" pop channel several times recently. I wonder how many other middle-aged people are noticing this and if they are buying the m...
- Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Classical CDs of the last 10 years
- Replies: 45
- Views: 25731
Zoltan Kocsis's recording of the Debussy Preludes - 1998 I recently heard Claude Debussy's "Prelude a L'apres midi D'un faune" and I really loved it. Please excuse the spelling if it is not correct...I am very new to classical and have not learned French or Italian as of yet :-) I was wondering if ...
- Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:37 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: High Fidelity - The Movie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11984
High Fidelity - The Movie
We watched the movie comedy High Fidelity starring John Cusack yesterday evening for the first time. It's about the emotional maturation of young man who life is centered on his record collection and who owns a used record store specializing in pop music on vinyl. The staff and customers of the stor...
- Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:01 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Classical CDs of the last 10 years
- Replies: 45
- Views: 25731
The Tintner Bruckner cycle on Naxos began in 1995 and continued through 1998. All the discs are good and several sound truly outstanding to me. Zoltan Kocsis's recording of the Debussy Preludes - 1998 Gardiner's version of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress - 1999 Haitink made three discs of Ravel mus...
- Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Sergeant Pepper's in the classical repertoire?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13086
- Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Best Classical CDs of the last 10 years
- Replies: 45
- Views: 25731
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: More denial of global warming.......
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12678
For some interesting speeches and essays on this subject by the novelist Michael Crichton visit his website:
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches.html
In particular "The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming," "Environmentalism as Religion" and "Aliens Cause Global Warming"
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches.html
In particular "The Case for Skepticism on Global Warming," "Environmentalism as Religion" and "Aliens Cause Global Warming"
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: International Piano Archive at Maryland
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5880
International Piano Archive at Maryland
At UM's piano archives, Donald Manildi is man of note By Tim Smith Sun Music Critic July 8, 2007 At first glance, the nearly room-width, ceiling-high filing cabinets that fill an impossibly compact corner of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park suggest...
- Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The joy of being penniless
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6108
Re: The joy of being penniless
Why do we still have pennies, anyway? To annoy the hell out of us. Taxes are not enough. They have to visit pennies upon us as well. Probably a conspiracy with the copper mine owners too. The penny is composed almost 98% of zinc. The nickel is made mainly of copper however. I think the last congres...
- Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: About that OTHER American composer, born on the 4th of July
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3409
Foster's "Ah, May the Red Rose Live Always" is a beautiful and poignant song. Ah, may the red rose live always, To smile upon earth and sky! Why should the beautiful ever weep? Why should the beautiful die? Lending a charm to ev'ry ray That falls on her cheeks of light, Giving the zephyr kiss for ki...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:43 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "A Racist Heart"?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8219
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:23 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "A Racist Heart"?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8219
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Read the Classics?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11536
"Newland never seems to look ahead," Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: "No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book." "Ah, yes--like his father!" Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited...
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:02 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Russian capitalism pays well!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2978
I suppose, in the short run, the fact that Russians are seeing their living standards rise rapidly diverts them from worrying about Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule. In the long run, however, a rising middle class tends to counter-balance the power of government. Lots of people end up holdin...
- Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:26 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rachmaninov: A monarch of the imagination.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13161
- Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are You Watching and/or Reading?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 83212
Today I finished The Alhambra by Washington Irving which was first published in 1832. Irving served for a time as a diplomat in Spain and had an opportunity to reside in the Alhambra palace for several months. The book is travel literature intermingled with retellings (spiced with Irving's own brand...
- Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Happy Birthday Ford Motor Company!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4124
Maybe, but history is bunk. According to my history of the Fords (Lacey) it is not clear what Ford really said. He claimed The Chicago Tribune misquoted him (is it possible a newspaper would do such a thing? :roll:). It is clear that Ford did not like the way history was presented in school books b...
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Baltimore Concerts on XM Radio
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3255
Baltimore Concerts on XM Radio
XM to play BSO concerts in 2008 By Tim Smith sun music critic June 15, 2007 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will return to the national airwaves for the first time in nearly a decade with a new series on XM satellite radio beginning Sept. 27, when Marin Alsop's first concert as music director will ...
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A Whale of a Tale
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3467
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Felonies Arising From Foolishness
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5692
Successful school pranks should be humorous and fundamentally good-natured like the one at this high school. The greatest tradition of university pranks must be at Caltech. Here are a few examples: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html http://www.globalprovince.com/caltech.htm A few yea...
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Felonies Arising From Foolishness
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5692
It was a pretty good old fashioned prank of the sort chronicled in Owen Johnson's "Lawrenceville Stories" such as The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, and The Varmint. I don't think they are in print anymore but they should be. Is anyone else here familiar with them? These stories written in t...
- Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Don't Act Out if You Don't Like the Music
- Replies: 104
- Views: 31559
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sunday Morning
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2982
I'll sip coffee on my porch overlooking the water and read The Old Curiosity Shop, pausing now and then to watch the birdlife. Later in the morning I"ll drive to Washington to see an afternoon soccer match between DC and New York. I'll spend the rest of the day catching up on the old movies I've rec...
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Paris Hilton
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9070
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:55 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Attention Impecunious EM Fans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3194
- Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:15 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Magnificent, Wonderful Museum Opens!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4592
Well, forgive me for being a snob, but I cannot recall Nostalgia as one of the Nine Muses. The elevation of triva to replace high art and culture as being of central importance to our lives is not something I celebrate. The Rijksmuseum, now that is a museum! A brand of soap or its packaging and adv...
- Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Magnificent, Wonderful Museum Opens!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4592
I visited the old Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta a few years ago and enjoyed it. The displays showing the changes in advertising over the years were particularly fascinating. Museums about industry, civic and social history are more interesting to me than most fine arts museums. They provide a window l...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Yankee or Dixie Quiz
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8250
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:05 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Favorite actors and actresses
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8600
Many of the best actors have been character actors in supporting roles. The studios were full of them in Hollywood’s Golden Age and they could take a good movie to a higher level or save a mediocre one by creating a character of real interest. However, we usually mean leads when we discuss favorites...
- Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Happy 40th to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3168
Don't forget this guy: 'Beatles split was a relief' By Rob Blackhurst Published: Apr 20, 2007 AIR Lyndhurst, the Hampstead church converted into a recording studio by Sir George Martin, hardly reeks of the spirit of rock 'n' roll. Inside the gloomy Victorian building are hanging baskets and a plaque...
- Tue May 22, 2007 8:59 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Dawkins and the God Delusion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17483
(Dawkins would argue we do, as only organization may have a hope of stemming fundamentalist religious fanaticism.) I can't imagine the organized spread of ideas like Intelligent Design having occurred without the previous efforts of organized and almost militant groups to ban religious expression w...
- Sun May 20, 2007 9:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How will the religious right get on without Jerry Falwell?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6572
As a believer, I can say you're full of it. The religious right, unfortunately, will continue as a group that seeks to oppress as it was destined to do when it first came into power. We have more to fear from religious zealots like you than anyone else. I'm confused, which one of you is the religio...
- Sun May 20, 2007 9:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A Brilliant Act of Protest
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2662
A Brilliant Act of Protest
Mermaid statue draped in Muslim dress Sun May 20, 4:16 PM ET The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said. The statue sculpted in tribut...
- Fri May 18, 2007 11:07 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: God's Retribution Was Severe
- Replies: 66
- Views: 23014
It’s always remarkable to hear religious believers of the more liberal sort condemn fundamentalists for their moral views and primitive ideas about things like the sources and significance of natural disasters and acts of violence. To those of us who are non-believers the gulf between the two camps ...
- Thu May 17, 2007 8:36 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How to Put 6,500 cd's into a shoebox...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12596
Music critic Gary Giddins in his monthly column in the current issue of JazzTimes writes about his very positive experiences with an iPod given to him by his "persistent" daughter. He writes about the way shuffle play "has generated many small revelations" and that he is using earphones more frequen...