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Muriel

I can get a melody or motif stuck in me head for days... I whistle Harold Arlen’s “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” Works like a charm I spend my days with a two year old and find that I get her choice of music in my ears and it sticks to me like glue,"This old man,he played one,he played kinck knack on...

Muriel

Ave Maria for seven voices by Philippe Verdelot Tallis Scholars

Muriel

The Switched On Brandenburgs

Handel's Largo

The Four Seasons ,usually summer!

Muriel

But I am pleased to announce that the choir of the Cathedral Church of St Paul here in Boston will sing the world premiere of Christopher Forbes's Advent Introit, O Oriens , this Sunday, 11 December 05. That would be nice to hear. The congregation is fortunate that the choir director of St. Paul's ...

Muriel

Max Bruch, ever in Brahms shadow, wrote beautiful chamber music.

Not only was Haydn "Compelled to be original " but he had both the time to write music and the fantastic orchestra to play it, stuck away all summer in the Castle Esterhazy.

Muriel

What was the name of the film he made about his mother dying but then manifesting herself as a giant ghost floating over Manhatten? That was his contribution to New York Stories, which featured short stories by Woody, Francis Ford Coppala and Martin Scorcese. Thanks Barry,I'll look out for it ,I di...

Muriel

What was the name of the film he made about his mother dying but then manifesting herself as a giant ghost floating over Manhatten?

Muriel

Love Woody's films ,watching Love and Death right this minute.
Great Russianalia.

Muriel

Ralph wrote:Enjoy. And don't let anyone ruin the experience for you by telling you the tarnished heroin expires at the end of the opera.

Her tiny hand was frozen.

Muriel

Du Pre's Elgar Cello concerto.

Muriel

"There is no rose of such virtue, As is the rose that bare Jesu"

res miranda

Muriel

We are having a big dump of snow here in Victioria ,British Columbia. It's been two years since the last blizzard.
As far as Christmas Decorations go we are too lazy to do any and are one of those families that drive around and look at the hard work and expense of the neighbours efforts.

Muriel

Break Forth ,O Beauteous Heavenly Light ,Bach's Christmas Oratorio ,William Davies at the Organ with the Westminister Brass Ensemble.

Muriel

So how is Classical Music percieved as we head into the year 2006? Amongst the general public I mean We dont laugh at thier ridiculous pop music! I laugh at their ridiculous pop music. Fight fire with fire. Turn it up. Classical music is alive and well somewhere in your neighbourhood ,try the music...

Muriel

I give myself about a half hour in the morning ,and an hour or more in the afternoon. The computer is my stereo too ,so it's always playing away no matter what I am doing. I'm not working but am at home with my 2 year old grandaughter 3 or 4 days a week. Addicted,not at all.Mind you I am over here p...

Muriel

BWV 1080 wrote: Dudley Do Right

Flin Flon Manitoba if you must know!
And I box your ears!

Muriel

Mozart ,Variations,K 360 ,Schiff /Shiokawa.

Muriel

BWV 1080 wrote:
Wendy's Corp ... Muahahaha!

Another thwack across your snout.

Tim Horton's ! That's not food!

Muriel

jbuck919 wrote:There is another not too dissimilar site, the Good Music Guide, where the owner is Australian. You are very welcome here, but you might try there too.

http://www.good-music-guide.com

jb,
GMG has been down for a while now,do you know what's going on over there?

Muriel

Ninna Nanna an album of Lullabies sung by Montserrat Figueras

Muriel

Another quiz: What composer was an oboist, took part in the "Battle of Hastenbeck (part of the Seven Year's War), played in his regimental band, and was a conductor at Bath? Hint: He was not known, primarily, as a composer. The answer: William Herschel (1738-1822), famous astronomer and the discove...

Muriel

Muriel, this guy is ready for one of your fluffy, delectable CREAM PIES.

Good idea Huck,I'll put a big red brick in it.

Muriel

"Just shoot me before the Canadian starts talking."

A bop on the nose with a rolled up newspaper to you BWV ,and NO pie!

Muriel

[quote= Not at all. After a probationary period of vicerorial rule and given significant progress toward cultural reform and indoctrination, full annexation can then be contemplated. However we may want to give Quebec back to France.[/quote] Oh this is nasty,what happened ,did you get a bad piece of...

Muriel

Brendan wrote:
As far as body-image in the past compared to today is concerned, Marylin Monroe would be considered huge by today's standards and wouldn't get a bit-part, IMHO.

Who would consider Marylin huge?

Muriel

Well you can't eat much before you go on in the evening,it's the habit of singers to eat after the performance,by that time they are ravenous. Then after a big bowl of pasta and cheese you fall exhausted in your bed,next day same story,then it just becomes a habit.I doubt most performers are able to...

Muriel

Ralph wrote:All together now:

Ive Got The World on a String...

Thanks for this Ralph,it'll be in my head all day now,life is a beautiful thing.

Muriel

[quote="Brendan"]Apple pie with cheese? They don't have a little "nausea" smilie to use to indicate my response to this very alarming idea.

quote]
Not even Wensleydale?
Would it sound any better to you if the crust was made with cheddar cheese?

Muriel

Anyone into salty pies? My favourite is mushroom pie in which I usually use self-picked boletus edulis , but fresh champignons will do at emergency. If interested, the yummy is just a PM away. Ah ,wild mushroom pie.Katarina ,is that you? My MIL made a bacon and egg pie that was raw strips of bacon ...

Muriel

[quote="jbuck919"]... in the first place, it is rude to suggest that anything your host serves is out of fashion. ..quote] It certainly is! But the troglodyte's around my table (my family) have no manners whatsoever and in fact that's how I got the new convection range in the first place.Earnings fr...

Muriel

DavidRoss wrote: Muriel, I love you, but you're hazardous to my waistline!

David you're so easy to seduce,but that is another story!

Muriel

Listening now to Schumann's Gesange der Fruhe ,Op 133.

Muriel

Muriel, welcome to the site (she is an excellent poster folks, a living doll on the other board, if I may be allowed a non-PC observation). I think that some non-American-Canadian posters will still think of pie as something that contains savory not sweet things and will think of what you are talki...

Muriel

Well I'm awfully glad to hear this, that chap had me worried for a moment. There were opinions about the cheese vs the whipped cream as a topping ,no one at the table even mentioned al a mode! One fellow recalled a local diner served an apple pie with the cheese melted into it called Broken Drum . I...

Muriel

[quote="DavidRoss"] ...Elgar's Cello Concerto... Elgar's Cello Concerto was the first lp I purchased ,the du Pre had just come out and I played this till it wore out.I was about 15 years old. I became interested in Classical music via my mother who was a great fan of all the Russians from Tchaikovsk...

Muriel

What are your favorites,I made an apple pie last night ,one of my guests mentioned pie was out of fashion.Can this be true?

Muriel

There is so much great Can Lit ,my bookshelves overflow with the novels of Jane Urquhart, Rohinton Mistry, Donna Morrissy,Alistair MacLeod,Catherine Gildiner,Wayne Johnston and Jack Hodgins and on and on. It must be something in the water?

Muriel

karlhenning wrote: Then, I should accommodate you with reviews which incorporate politics!

Oh please don't Karl ,there are precious few places left now where one can get away from all that blather.

Muriel

My favorite Bruch anecdote is the one where he allegedly responded to a critic with a note that said: "I'm sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. Soon it will be behind me." ***** From fuguemasters.com: It would seem that Nicholas Slonimsky, in his highly entertaini...

Muriel

For something quite different try Piers Adams arrangement for Red Priest.
I think it's delightful.

Muriel

Charles, I have looked up every reference to Kol Nidrei in Fifields life of Bruch and have found nothing to answer your question. There is this about the work though... "In a letter to Emil Kamphausen,Bruch describes how he came upon the material for the work: The two melodies are first-class-the fi...

Muriel

Charles, I have found this in "Max Bruch,His Life and Works, by Christopher Fifield Pub in 1988 "It has been erroneously recorded in such books as Kohut's Beruhmte judische Manner und Frauen ,Gunter's Rassenkunde des deutschen Volks, and Zaleski's Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race, that Max Bruch...

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Pie