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Auntie Lynn

Wowsers! Now I have to take back all the rotten things I've said about him...way to go!!

Auntie Lynn

I have worked for our local troupe for 32 years. They do all of the above plus everything else. The company has tremendous depth. They are currently on tour (got rave reviews in Hamburg - and everyone knows those Germans can't dance unless it's oom-pah-pah). And they are just about the only performi...

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Yep, he was my first friend back at the old Classical Insites - anyone having contact with Uncle Ralph could kindly advise him that Auntie Lynn is also worried and sends all possible best wishes...

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Yuppers...a crazy looking old 78 of Amelita Galli-Curci singing Proch's Air and Variations. Spectacular. Every note is a golden pearl...

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Wozzeck - my personal heartbreaker fave...

(Eckshully, I am a fun lady and I like fun music...)

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I still say and he and Liberace - in their day - did more to advance the cause of classical music than anyone...not too sure who's doing it today to any great effect...

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The famous trumpet solo is in the third act Italian variation...lots of triple toungue-ing...

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There was a video of them on-line at Verbier a couple of years ago...which also included a video of about eight top-ten hot shot piano players playing - I think - the Hexameron...

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Oh, gosh - my grandpa was from Lancashire so I am highly partial. A most interesting thing while in London recently was Harrison Birtwhistle's Mask of Orpheus at the Barbican - an extraordinary undertaking considering the logistics of getting it done. Anyway, I'd probably start with Elgar, Holst, et...

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It's just a suggestion, but you might wanna check the craigslist instrument entries to see if there's anything interesting...tuners also usually have pretty good leads. Mama bought mine new from a dealer...and she sure knew what she was doing!

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Steinway has a sort of "Kelly Blue Book" on line. My piano is now worth 16 times what mama paid for it - and/or that is what it would cost me to replace it...don't think I could replace it, though. It is a Series G and pretty rare - but one of the best.

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Our local troupe is doing R&J all this week. Great casts (checkitout online). Some of the best dancers in the world. Newish production. Come on out - bring money and take public transportation...kiss kiss...

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I love Arch Digest - Paige Rense has a lot of friends in SF. Things to watch out for. A piano is not a piece of furniture. Don't load it down with pictures of idiot children. No vases of flowers unless you don't mind a spill costing you about $4,000 for re-stringing. The only thing that should ever ...

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I've got "Famous Pianists and their Techniques" by Gerig. Don't know if this is what you want. There's also the Banowetz (?) book on pedaling - both are real handy dandy...

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It was on TV the other night. Ovation is doing Berlin, Kirov/Maryinsky, Bolshoi, Bourne and the Royal this week - you get to vote for your fave. However, sports fans, SF was the first to do this little number...thankya Lew Christensen...

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Just went from San Fran to London and back to see the glorious Sergei Polunin do Prince Florestan at the ROH...it was my Christmas present...

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And Alex Templeton had a fantastic array of bankable musical abilities...remember when I used to take five notes from the audience and improvise a concerto live...

Anybody mention Grand Master George Shearing (he was a close friend of my major adviser in grad school...)

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I finally got in but I had to use Netscape to do it...thanks for all your help...

La Lynn

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Well, times change and scholarship changes, but I don't recommend this. What's that old saying about the guy who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a client...?? Walter Piston was the standard for years. We also used Roger Sessions (I used to live in his house in Berkeley). There are things tha...

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Mr. Wild took lessons from my piano teacher back in the good old/bad old days. Vladimir got after him for wearing nail polish...

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Uh, well, I hate to be mundane, but I celebrated my recent b'day at Le Ciel at the Grand Hotel Wien in Vienna after a trip to Zentralfriedhof to visit Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, all the darlin' Strausses (without whom I would not be in business)...etc. etc.

Cannot wait to go back...

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I posted the following on the Amazon classical music thread - and - mirabile dictu! everyone agreed with me... ***** Black Swan takes psychodrama and wraps it in the trappings of classical dance. I have NEVER seen a good dance movie. At least The Red Shoes had a little truth in it, plus Shearer was ...

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Sarah would make a good Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority leader. I am not a big Sarah fan, but she's the only interesting political individual out there...for reasons not entirely comprehended by me...

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This was on TV a few years back...

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I don't understand it. I am holding down three jobs and turning down others. Yes, I am in an orphan occupation. Mama didn't train me to do any job a robot can do. The whole problem is over-population - too many people chasing too few jobs...

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On a recent trip to Paris from SF to Dulles, we had not one, not two, not three, but - yep, four screaming babies. The minute one let up, another would start - and yes, I know all about entitlements... Two days ago, my daughter and I walked through the scanner at Heathrow and nobody even looked...

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I think Mayor Newsom vetoed it...

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I am not answering the phone until after it's over...

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I understand Al and Daniel Day Lewis come from the same school of acting - part Stanislavsky and part Cagney...

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We used to have this on one of the old CMG sites - there was Ralph and Frank Berglas and a bunch of others - Nightmare Alice, I think... For all I know, it may be floating around out there in cyberspace as I am not aware that it was ever taken down or cancelled out...

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I am no big Sarah fan, but - face it - she's the only interesting political figure out there.

And Marilyn was NOT dumb...

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I NEVER say I told you so -- but I saw this coming three years ago.

BTW, what you win is a toaster oven and a cheese log...

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Standard Oil built Davies - we also have a Mr. Goldman (Richard) - major insurance there...

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I look gawjus! You cannot do the Foyer Strut if you have nothing to strut. Willie Brown and I have the same Saturday night subscription and we have this little two-step routine...

And how about them Jints!!?? Everybody said we'd drop dead when Barry Bonds left...too soon to tell...

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San Francisco can take care of San Francisco's homeless. The problem is the tens of thousands of homeless who gravitate in here from Ypsilanti, Bayonne, Yazoo City, etc. etc. in order to get on our very generous General Assistance, paid for by - you guessed it - yours truly, the SF Property Owner/Ta...

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Eckshully, most rubato is governed by performer temperament...

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FNC - at least they give both sides.

On the job, one of my co-workers ALWAYS knows all the grist...who's doing who, etc.

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The REAL problem was - it wasn't funny - if you are going to do that shtick, you gotta be funny - and I am rather easily entertained...

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I haven't read this whole thread, but has anybody heard from Uncle Ralph? Has he been here at all? Is he okay? I think I have his e-mail, maybe I checkitout...

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And contrary to popular opinion, it is not all concentrated on these threads...

Kiss kiss...

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That distinguished jurist, Auntie Lynn, always sez: Hang 'Em High! Thereby, making yet another parking space available to the desperate...

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Sold my utterly gawjus Buffet clarinet many years ago to buy a car - it would cost me $10,000 to replace it today - I guess we all do dumb things...

Apologies to Stoltzman, Goodman and Dickson in Allana, Joja...

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I haven't read this whole thread, but we had a previous heads-up on the Variations book a few months back. It's at the SFPL - I started it, but re-shelved...sorry...

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Well, this piece is a lot of fuss and feathers and what you wind up with is an empty suit. When I bought the sheet music for this at Tupper and Reed in Berkeley, the salesman told me that last time he heard it played, Rachmaninoff was at the Old 88. It used to have the reputation of being the most d...

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BTW, I might also mention the classical music forum over at Amazon. They have a couple of really knowledgeable and witty folks (Piso Mojado and Henry James) plus a few others. The threads tend to get overloaded but if you like a whole lot of opinionating, this is a site you might try...

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Every time I mention this, it generates a firestorm of rage at this site, but since you ask...I have a full time job playing piano all day at a first tier, high profile performing arts venue here in Baghdad by the Bay. I have a substantial range of marketable, bankable skills including the Magic Ear...

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There's a huge crater where the gas line blew up - looks like Shanksville, PA. My daughter's boyfriend was working at the shopping center just on the fringe of the mess... Now, you're gonna love this - the line was laid in 1948 - the PGE top execs get HUGE salaries/bonuses - etc. We almost bought a ...

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Well, I had planned this year to go to Vienna and take the tour bus to see where it all happened, Beethoven, the Strausses, Mahler, walk in the Prater with the ghost of Brahms, see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Viennese schools, etc. - but I had to have two teeth fixed to the tune of $5,500 so that settled that...

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Manipulating Le Gibet is a challenge. That's what the sostenuto (middle) pedal is for on the Old 88, and I hope you have a really good one because it certainly helps. My teacher strongly recommends the Banowetz pedaling book. It is the standard for the genre. The hanged body is supposed to be swingi...

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