Lance,
I kind of think of you as a musical version “Mikie” from the Life Cereal commercials. I’ll post a piece to see if “Mikie likes it”.
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- Thu May 02, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Jessie Montgomery: Strum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 57
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Jessie Montgomery: Strum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 57
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
This weekend I will be playing a concert with the Avanti Orchestra of the Friday Morning Music Club which will take place in Silver Spring, Maryland. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/avanti-orchestra-concert-featuring-chi-yuan-lin-and-brannon-cho-tickets-895673031147?aff=erelexpmlt The Tchaikovsky 5th i...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Luciano Berio - as an "arranger"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: Luciano Berio - as an "arranger"
Now, that is something I would like to hear! Has it been recorded as a concerto? Berio also orchestrated Brahms' 1st clarinet sonata, making it in effect a clarinet concerto. In the process he added a 30 second orchestral introduction of his own composition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdydyDb8...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Luciano Berio - as an "arranger"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: Luciano Berio - as an "arranger"
Berio also orchestrated Brahms' 1st clarinet sonata, making it in effect a clarinet concerto. In the process he added a 30 second orchestral introduction of his own composition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdydyDb8jCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdydyDb8jCA
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Don't despair, the hard right is keeping comedy alive and well! :lol: :lol: :lol: Another low resolution comment. The real humour is, of course, to be found in Lefty heads exploding at the mere mention of Trump. You don't need argument; just exploding heads. The hard right has ZERO institutional po...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 118
Re: Jerry Seinfeld; the hard left is killing comedy
Don't despair, the hard right is keeping comedy alive and well!
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 129
Re: The Covid Response Fallout Continues
Does the US have a system to examine these measures that doesn't involve politicians? It's called the United States Public Health Service, which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. What you're seeing in this article is an attempt by politicians to meddle in their decisions. ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
- Replies: 7
- Views: 235
Re: Former Professor Boghossian says college cannot be saved
Oh good, a chart I can consult anytime I need to decide what I think about any particular issue. It's so nice that these guys know in advance what everyone thinks before they think it. Too bad those evil people at Google have made it impossible for me to read. I'm sure the Illuminati put them up to ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: January 24, 2025
- Replies: 3
- Views: 241
January 24, 2025
NYC people, put this date on your calendar. January 24, 2025. Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 8:00 PM. Lindsey Goodman, flute and Clare Longendyke, piano in a program of contemporary works for flute and piano, including Voice of the Turtle by Mark G. Simon (aka diegobueno) How does a composer get...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: BLM's Assault on American Theatre: McWhorter with Duncan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 177
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 239
Re: Do men belong in the YWCA women's changing rooms?
The emergence of trans people as a visible element in society is posing challenges that society hasn't had to face before. I think accomodation needs to be made for trans people, but it also needs to be made for everyone else who have to deal with them. Activists for trans rights need to consider th...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: My midday late breakfast today at IHOP: a story
- Replies: 6
- Views: 210
Re: My midday late breakfast today at IHOP: a story
Someone's gotta maintain those CEO yachts and vacation homes, and that would be you, the consumer.
You've got to seek out the mom 'n pop diners for the kind of honest breakfast you're looking for. Good luck.
You've got to seek out the mom 'n pop diners for the kind of honest breakfast you're looking for. Good luck.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
- Replies: 6
- Views: 292
Re: Lady of the Lake: Arizona Senate hopeful tells Deplorables to don the ‘armor of God’ and ‘strap on a Glock’ pistol
Or in this case, La Donna Del Mar-a-Lago.lennygoran wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 am"La donna del lago is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2083981
Re: What I listened to today
Well, join the Opus Clavicembalisticum Club! I first got to "know" this work with British pianist John Ogdon 's 4-CD recording on the Altarus label [9075] (purchased in Collegetown, Ithaca, New York - I shan't ever forget). Lance, you're making me nostalgic! I disposed of so much of my income in th...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What I listened to today
- Replies: 3164
- Views: 2083981
Re: What I listened to today
https://cdn.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/8.572666.jpg I've always had an interest in the music of Fikret Amirov. When I was little I somehow had in the home a recording of an Amirov piece called "Kyurdi Ovshary" (the record gave the title as "Caucasian Dances") and I used to listen to it ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 253
Re: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
You can hear the whole thing here (tracks 10-13). I was just linking to the really difficult parts.
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6367/
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 253
Re: Please read page 63 on "What I Listened to Today"
Hi Lance, I'm flattered that you think I'll be able to unlock the mysteries of Sorabji for you. I don't think I can do that. My knowledge of Sorabji's music comes mainly from perusing his scores in the Cornell Music Library and thinking "Good Lord! That's a lot of notes! So many notes sounding all a...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 633
Re: When you buy a recording, is it for the music or the artist performing?
I almost always buy a recording for the music, and not the performer. With contemporary music -- which make up the bulk of my new purchases -- there's generally only one performance anyway. I'm good with only one or two recordings of the standard rep. If I enjoy a certain performance, why go out of ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2249
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
And of course, even that Swedish data, and in USA,elsewhere,ignores as it must what the numbers would have been, spread had been, had no precautions been taken, no vaccines, no masks,no distancing,etc. In short, thank goodness precautions were advised and taken by many of us and that as a result mo...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Theory quiz
- Replies: 4
- Views: 330
Re: Theory quiz
11 out of 12 (and I really have no excuse for the one mistake)
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2249
Re: Highly respected Oncologist warns about cancers rising from Covid vaccines
One of my retired co-workers didn't get vaccinated in 2020 because she was convinced by friends that the Covid vaccine was, for some reason, more dangerous than the disease. She died of Covid before the year was up. Another friend, a lyricist I worked with in the past, went to the hospital with some...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Sibelius 8
- Replies: 5
- Views: 383
Re: Sibelius 8
You can listen to 3 little fragments of the 8th, but it’s impossible to come to any conclusions about what the whole piece would have been like. The longest fragment is dissonant in a suspensive way, like it would be if you were waiting for it to resolve. The 7th starts that way also.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
- Replies: 8
- Views: 410
Re: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
The complete quote is "When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross". People have been citing this for years, and now we're seeing it happen.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
- Replies: 8
- Views: 410
Re: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
It's widely believed that Sinclair Lewis said that, but no one can locate a place in any of his writings where he actually said it. That's why I didn't attribute it to him when I first posted it.
Can you identify a source that definitively places this quote as coming from Huey Long?
Can you identify a source that definitively places this quote as coming from Huey Long?
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
- Replies: 8
- Views: 410
Re: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
Who? Sinclair Lewis? If he came back from the dead he'd point his finger and say "See! I told you so!"jserraglio wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:05 amFine. Just so long as he doesn’t come back from the dead.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
- Replies: 8
- Views: 410
Re: “The great silent majority is rising like never before under our leadership” —Rev. D.J. Doom
Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Donald Trump is posing as our New Paschal Lamb
- Replies: 11
- Views: 572
Re: Donald Trump is posing as our New Paschal Lamb
My aphorism is one of the oldest paradigm in the world, practiced by the Church itself (remember The Crusades?) and what ever expedient works. No difference this time. Even as an April Fools joke this is pretty low. Here we've just finished a major holiday celebrating a man who turned away all expe...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Sibelius 8
- Replies: 5
- Views: 383
Re: Sibelius 8
(Groan)
This might be a good day to skip CMG.
This might be a good day to skip CMG.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Haydn -- Seven Last Words
- Replies: 6
- Views: 336
Haydn -- Seven Last Words
Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ are usually performed in an arrangement for string quartet. Orchestras seem to be reluctant to program an hour-long orchestral work consisting of eight adagio movements, and this by a composer usually known for his light-hearted approach to composition. I enjoy thi...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Da da.... Maundy Thursday
- Replies: 2
- Views: 185
Da da.... Maundy Thursday
Thomas Tallis wrote his Lamentations of Jeremiah in 1560 for Maundy Thursday and that is my go-to music for this day of the liturgical year. If you ask me "what's the most beautiful music ever composed?", this is it. It's a biblical setting in Latin, but includes the Hebrew letters which mark the ve...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 320
Re: Thanks
My doctor recently noted that my PSA is high, and I've now had the PET scan, so I may soon join the prostate cancer club. But I trust if they catch it now, they'll be able to treat it. I'm 70.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 173
Re: Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie
100% pure projection of course. The right does nothing but make up victimization stories. Why do you post this nonsense?
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Thanks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 320
Re: Thanks
Some guy: I know I've clashed with you as often and as bitterly as anyone here, but still I feel sad at this news. I wish you as much comfort in the coming months as is possible under the circumstances. May you hear the most astonishing music in the next world that none of us here could ever imagine...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How Did Wagner Want His ‘Ring’ Cycle to Sound?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 223
Re: How Did Wagner Want His ‘Ring’ Cycle to Sound?
This is Wagner without constant vibrato, and sometimes without traditionally operatic singing. But mostly, the difference in sound comes from the instruments themselves, both originals from the 19th century and reproductions. Historical, often temperamental winds and brasses have a milder timbre, s...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Kurt Schwertsik, (1935- )
- Replies: 0
- Views: 150
Kurt Schwertsik, (1935- )
I just happened upon a book called Kurt Schwertsik und der Begriff der Moderne im Wandel, (I deal with Austrian books at the Library of Congress). I thought I remembered the name from somewhere, but it turns out he's an Austrian composer, about 89 years old by now. I figured he must be pretty avant-...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Vaughan Williams: Documentary
- Replies: 2
- Views: 205
Re: Vaughan Williams: Documentary
I'll have to make a point of watching this video sometime soon. I love that the opening music is from the 8th symphony. RVW's orchestral palette became very colorful in his later years. This symphony includes lots of keyed percussion, or in his words "every 'spiel and 'phone known to the composer". ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Monteverdi
- Replies: 4
- Views: 243
Re: Monteverdi
My favorite Monteverdi recording is called "Geistliche Konzerte" with Jürgen Jürgens and the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, on the Archiv label. Most of the selections are from Monteverdi's "Selva morali e spirituali". There's something about the acoustics of the recording, the choice of continuo instrume...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Top Dozen Symphonies
- Replies: 25
- Views: 980
Re: Top Dozen Symphonies
Wow! Nobody else admires Copland III, with that killer fugue in the second movement? Just saying, but I think it's a masterpiece! 😉 I own about 8-10 recordings. Do give it another try! I have both Bernstein recordings of Copland's 3rd. It's definitely my favorite American symphony. Probably Copland...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Composer and pianist Aribert Reimann has died, aged 88
- Replies: 2
- Views: 150
Re: Composer and pianist Aribert Reimann has died, aged 88
Aribert's Lear only makes me wish all the more that Boito had convinced Verdi to take up the subject.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The only good thing about death ...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1713
Re: The only good thing about death ...
Mark, that is a very heartfelt and touching story about your father. This segment from below: "I can tell you there won't be any angels with harps, that's for sure. I just can't believe that we just stop existing. God created us for more than that." I hope he was incorrect about the angels and harp...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The only good thing about death ...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1713
Re: The only good thing about death ...
My father used to say that he couldn't imagine living beyond 89 years old, and yet his 90th birthday rolled around and he was healthy and active. My wife and I took trips to see him every summer during these years, and he insisted on being the host. He took us places, made meals and wouldn't let me ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: White Liberal Rage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 211
Re: White Liberal Rage
Said by someone who comes on here spouting rage every day.Belle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:52 pmIt's ubiquitous.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/1 ... eral-rage/
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: I almost hate to read, see, or hear the NEWS any more!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 361
Re: I almost hate to read, see, or hear the NEWS any more!
Lance,
Stop watching Fox News! Stop watching your Sinclair-owned station.
Problem solved.
Stop watching Fox News! Stop watching your Sinclair-owned station.
Problem solved.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: British Piano Concertos
- Replies: 15
- Views: 645
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) Symphony #7
- Replies: 2
- Views: 130
Re: Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) Symphony #7
Many thumbs up.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 274
Re: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
Your government is hard Left because it has infantilized the people by going after one cohort on behalf of another. I just noticed this. Are you really saying that Donald Trump is on trial because the Biden administration is persecuting him? Do you really believe that? Are you really that gullible?...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 274
Re: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
Well, that's such an all-encompassing rant, there's nothing there to hold on to and respond to.
I do have to snicker at the idea that DeSantis displays "Christian values". It seems to be doctrine among modern evangelicals to negate the teachings of Christ in their treatment of others.
I do have to snicker at the idea that DeSantis displays "Christian values". It seems to be doctrine among modern evangelicals to negate the teachings of Christ in their treatment of others.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 274
Re: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
The usual partisan media is barracking for the federal government and its hard left ideologies. So the federal government of the United States itself is "hard left" and must be opposed? As a patriotic American I must protest. The United States government is based on the rule of law, not the rule of...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 274
DeSantis faces pushback as voters tire of war on woke
DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke Conservative lawmakers rejected a host of new culture wars proposals in the legislature by Lori Rozsa The bill banning rainbow flags from public buildings in Florida sounded like a sure bet. State Rep. David Borrero (R), the legislati...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A spoke in the GOP wheel — Taylor urges 300 million Swifties to vote today
- Replies: 8
- Views: 309
Re: A spoke in the GOP wheel — Taylor urges 300 million Swifties to vote today
The MAGAnauts, and Republican party in general, know they are in the minority. They know they cannot get elected if everybody votes. That's why they introduce all these restrictive voting measures.