The Classical Music Guide Forums

RebLem

The greatest organ composer of all time, by far, was J.S. Bach. In my opinion, the leading Bach organ player in the world is a French woman named Marie Claire Alain. She has recorded the complete Bach organ works no less than 3 times, and her latest traversal, mostly from the early 1990's, is availa...

RebLem

I hear that after his death, people found plans in Beethoven's sketchbooks for a second opera based on the Faust legend. This would be my choice.

RebLem

Today, Monday, 20 MAR 2006, I listened to 3 CDs. 1) 10/9 Steven Stucky (b 1949): Son et Lumiere (10:03) Gabriel Ian Gould (b 1974): Watercolors--Robert Sheena, English horn solo (12:10) John Harbison: Cello Concerto (1993)--David Finckel, cello Morton Gould: Sym 2 "On Marching tunes" (1944) Albany S...

RebLem

If you do not believe in grade inflation, do you perhaps grade on a curve? I really can't imagine anything "too closely miked" getting anything like an 8. Let me just make clear what kind of CD I like. My idea of perfect recorded sound is the sound Harmonia Mundi gets for most of its William Christ...

RebLem

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is closing its Midwest Regional Library serving universities, the public and its own staff ... “the library will close in the near future” so as “to allow time for an orderly relocation of our library collection.” The affected library located in the Chicago ...

RebLem

EPA DUMBING DOWN ITS RESEARCH — Shrinking Environmental Research Budget Siphoned Off to Other Tasks Washington, DC — The ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct timely, cutting- edge research is threatened by diversion of money from a shrinking budget and by failure to defend ...

RebLem

You see, the whole idea here is the same on Big Brother established in 1984. Not only is the government going to do what it wants, but it is going to make the documents needed to find out what the government is doing totally inaccessible. Sort of like putting blinders on horses, except we're the hor...

RebLem

EPA CLOSING ITS MIDWEST LIBRARY — Holding Will Be Stored Indefinitely; Public Access to Research Compromised Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is closing its Midwest Regional Library serving universities, the public and its own staff in a six-state area, according to an inter...

RebLem

EPA OKAYS CHEMICAL TESTING ON FETAL TISSUE — Mysterious Language Change Buried within Final Human Subject Testing Rule Washington, DC — Without any public notice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rewritten its proposed rule on human experiments to authorize chemical testing on fetal tiss...

RebLem

I spent most of today, Saturday, 18 MAR 2006, listening to CDs. I have decided to change my procedure, and do little capsule reviews along with the listings, including a ClassicsToday (?) type #/# rating for performance and sound. Be forewarned, though, that I do not believe in grade inflation like ...

RebLem

Why not write to EMI and tell them that one disc out of a boxed set is defective. They might replace it without argument. Thanks for suggesting that, Ralph. I did exactly that, by Email. The replacement CD arrived in the mail today. I have already played it all the way through and its wonderful. So...

RebLem

Weighty was probably a poor choice of words. As I mentioned earlyer I am very much an outsider, not an expert. What I probably meant was something more along the lines of austere, difficult to fathom or appreciate. I think this is what most of the general public thinks of classical music in general...

RebLem

I think what you do is get The Shooter to resign, move your own official residence to Maine or Connecticut, and nominate Kay Bailey Hutchinson as Vice President.

RebLem

1913-2006 A man called 'Coach' Ray Meyer became a basketball legend at DePaul. 'Above all,' says a peer, 'he was a wonderful, wonderful man.' By Barry Temkin and Gary Reinmuth Chicago Tribune staff reporters Published March 17, 2006, 10:52 PM CST A job title usually tells what we do, not who we are,...

RebLem

Ralph, Maybe there is someone here with some medical experience who can explain how a healthy 14 year old boy can have his kidney and liver function totally destroyed as a result of a beating without the people who administered the beating having tried to kill him. The idea that they weren't trying...

RebLem

Beethoven's gallumphing rhythms, esp in his scherzos reveal a sense of fun. So do Mendelssoh's Italian Symphony, Brahms Haydn Variations, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, Ravel's Bolero and lots of other works. Many operas and ballets must of necessity be heavily dependent on rhtythm to provide conte...

RebLem

Dear Ralph, You mean to tell me that Nigerian bankers related to Sonny Abacha have taken over an Israeli hospital? :shock: :shock: :shock: Even I am not going to fall for this one, and I have been having bad luck every since a failed to forward a chain letter from a Filipino general in 1968. :x :x :...

RebLem

Brendan wrote:Actually it was dead easy. The looney left never realizes just how odious they are to mainstream society. I really mean it: keep on ranting. It can only help Bush and conservatives.

To some people, anyone to the left of Vlad the Impaler is the "Loony Left."

RebLem

I wonder if there might be more than one universe. Perhaps some of this unknown energy comes from something analagous to gravitation from other universes braided around our own?

RebLem

Ralph, Maybe there is someone here with some medical experience who can explain how a healthy 14 year old boy can have his kidney and liver function totally destroyed as a result of a beating without the people who administered the beating having tried to kill him. The idea that they weren't trying ...

RebLem

I don't know why the second link above doesn't work. Although the story originated with Associated Press, as the byline indicates, I got the story from the Friday, March 17, 2006 issue of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper. I posted the story on my own MSN Group and had to copy and repost abo...

RebLem

Mar 16, 9:42 PM EST Sexual assault reports in the military up By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reports of sexual assaults in the military increased by nearly 40 percent last year, the Pentagon announced Thursday, saying the increase was at least partly due to a new prog...

RebLem

WUSF-FM only plays a pair of very loud and very garish coronation marches. It did play a violin concerto once, but it was more than a decade ago, and I can no longer remember it. Incidentally, if you wonder why I ask so often about 20th century composers, it's because I don't have the GROFE DICTION...

RebLem

Today, Thurs., 16 MAR 2006, I spent most of the day either watching TV or doing laundry. So I only listened to two CDs + a portion of another. 1) Dietrich Buxtehude: 6 Cantatas (almost all B's cantatas are considerably shorter than Bach's)--Jos van Immerseel, cond., Orch Anima Aeterna, The Royal Con...

RebLem

4 CDs arrived today from ArkivMusic, all from cpo, which they had a sale on recently. 1) Johann Ernst Hartmann (1726-93): Complete Symphonies (4)--Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulriik Mortensen, hpsi, and music dir. 2) Gade: Violin Sonatas 1-3--Dora Bratchkova, violin, Andreas Meyer-Hermann, piano 3) Ot...

RebLem

I'm wondering if they can get it past the busybody censors at the Postal Service. I sure hope that girl coming out of the water is over 18.

RebLem

Oh, one more thing. My pre-emptive strike @ Corlyss. Very popular in GOP circles these days, so I'm sure she won't mind. 8) Just a few hours before I began this thread yesterday, I went to a barber shop and got myself a very nice haircut and beard trim. I am nowhere near as fuzzy headed as I was bef...

RebLem

I will not follow the rule. Who said the concert had to be an orchestral concert? On the theory that orchestral music is fascist because Hitler never attended, so far as I know, a chamber music concert, :P here's is my dream concert-- The St Petersburg String Quartet doing the following: Haydn: Stri...

RebLem

And WTH is a Vista beta? :shock: The next version of Windows. The install took about three hours all total and I'm still trying to get my sound back. :( John[/quote] What kind of internet connection do you have? If its anything other than a cable modem connection, which I have, mine might go faster...

RebLem

Martin Lee Anderson, 14 Years Old, Dies After Two Hours at a Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Facility, or Boot Camp http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/press_releases/20060110_Martin_Anderson.html News Release FDLE Investigates Death of Martin Lee Anderson January 10, 2006 The Florida Department of L...

RebLem

Installing the Vista beta has given me ample time to listen. :) Some highlights: Tchaikovsky: Symphomy No. 4 with George Szell conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . THis is part of the 5-CD Decca box. The performance was recorded in 1962 but not released during Szell's lifetime although it was...

RebLem

Today, Tuesday, 14 MAR 2006, I listened to the following: 1) Handel: Royal Fireworks Music, Water Music--Orpheus Chamber Orch. 2) Reynaldo Hahn: Songs, CD 2 of a 2 CD hyperion set--Felicity Lott, Susan Bickley, Ian Bostgridge, & Stephen Varcoe with Graham Johnson, pn 3) Mahler: Sym 1--Abravanel, Uta...

RebLem

I think Dulcinea is talking about recordings. I might Handel. I wouldn't Haydn. I have almost all of the old editions of Handel operas in score. I have a couple of the NMA out of Barenreiter. Haydn wrote just too much stuff for me to even think about it either in recordings or scores. Assuming she ...

RebLem

Meastro, you forgot to mention Nancy Faust. :P :P :P For those not from Chicago, Nancy Faust is the only person who ever played for the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago Black Hawks, the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs at various times in her career. She was, of course, a sports s...

RebLem

I just listened today to one of my recent acquisitions for the first time. a Vanguard twofer of the Mahler Sym 1 with Abravanel and the Utah SO, and Felix Prohaska conducting Des Knaben Wunderhorn, with bass-baritone Heniz Rehfuss and contralto Maureen Forrester. and what is called the "Vienna Symph...

RebLem

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Taliban Man at Yale University officials are embarrassed--but not embarrassed enough. Monday, March 6, 2006 12:01 a.m. Mr. Rahmatullah became an apologist for all of this during his propaganda tour of the U.S. in the months before 9/11. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" captu...

RebLem

March 13, 2006 | New York Times Maureen Stapleton, Oscar-Winning Actress, Is Dead at 80 By ROBERT BERKVIST Maureen Stapleton, who created a gallery of pugnacious, sometimes profane but always vulnerable heroines on Broadway, in movies and on television and who won an Academy Award for her fiery perf...

RebLem

Most classical music is not good for background music, so it that's what she wants, then you need to go for an exception. I said most, not all. Chopin's Nocturnes make excellent background music. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll is another one. At a somewhat more obtrusive level, but stilll paying most atte...

RebLem

Today, Sunday, 12 MAR 2006, I listened to Gilbert & Sullivan: Utopia Limited. D'Oyly Carte Co. Sullivan: Imperial March, Macbeth Overture, Victoria and Merrie England Suite 1, Marmion Overture. Handel Concerti Grossi, Op 6, # 1-6. Orpheus Chamber Orch., Tchaikovsky: Sym 5; Voyevoda. Abbado, CSO.

RebLem

The 15 CD RCA Pierre Monteux Edition (now OOP, apparently) which I have has the last three Tchaikovsky Symphonies with the BSO on 2 CDs, once also available separately. Of course, its not SACD, but the 15 CD set does have more than 16 hours of music.

RebLem

Lance, you must know Ernest Lumpe's work on the Allegro/Royale pseudonyms: http://www.geocities.com/elumpe/catalogue.htm Someone (I wish I had the time and means to do it myself) should be researching the Tomsic discography now, while the people with first-hand knowledge are still around to consult...

RebLem

I saw a comedy routine on Premium Blend on the Comedy Channel the other day that spoke to part of this concern, that is, the Islamic attitude toward women. If forget the comedian's name, except that it was a man. He said something like this: The Islamic heaven is great for guys, not so good for wome...

RebLem

Milosevic 'cheated justice' in death. 12 MAR 2006. ABC News Online Last Update: Sunday, March 12, 2006. 7:57am (AEDT) European and US politicians say the death of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in a detention centre robs Balkan victims of justice. Milosevic was found dead in his cell a...

RebLem

[Does anyone out there remember those wonderful Reader's Digest sets? Several records in big, sturdy, colorful cardboard boxes, well-recorded, with great program books.] Unfortunately, I never heard of them until some of the things they issued started showing up on other labels. I have bought some ...

RebLem

I'm looking for concert reviews from the Kondaly Quartet, Playing Haydn's "Emperor" in C Major, Opus 76, No. 3. Can anybody help me? Uhmmm, I think I know what the problem is. There is no Kondaly Quartet. There is, however, a Kodaly Quartet, and they have recorded this work. Why don't you go Google...

RebLem

If I'm bored I respond with "my" bank information indicating that my accounts all come to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Wow! You really must be bored to waste any time with those things. Since I registered with that place last summer, the address I gave you guys, I'm down to maybe 1 a week. I remember ...

RebLem

Today, Thurs., 9 MAR 2006, I listened to the following: Cox and Box, Arthur Sullivan's first theater piece before he met Wm Gilbert, words by F.C. Burnand, Isidore Godfrey, cond. Holst: Two vocal pieces--Savitri, which is a setting of an episode from the Mahabarata, one of the Hindu sacred texts, an...

RebLem

From what I hear, dzalman and A.C. Douglas are peas in a pod, so to speak.

I think dzalman thinks he is like the human Jesus and AC Douglas is like the divine Jesus (without the Beatitudes, of course.)

RebLem

We are NOT at war. Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare war. Then we haven't been at war since 1945. Just more hyperleft nonsense that most Americans are too smart to fall for. You Democrats are never going to get back in control by repeatedly indulging your self-gratifying mythologies...

RebLem

For some reason I think this story is bull crap - it just smells wrong to me. I paid of a sizable credit card balance last christmas with no issues like this. Millions of people likely do every month. If this really was happening it would not be an isolated story BWV 1080, I am trying to keep tabs ...

The Classical Music Guide Forums

Search found 9072 matches

Re: EPA closing library services in 6 state midwest area

Bush puts foxes in charge of the chicken coop

EPA closing library services in 6 state midwest area

EPA gives OK to testing chemicals on aborted fetuses

Former Blue Demons Coach Ray Meyer Dead at 92

Sexual assault reports up in military

Re: Who is William Walton?

Racism is dead? Not in Florida. Or anywhere else in USA

Re: Taliban Man at Yale

Actress Maureen Stapleton dead at 80

Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell

Re: Haydn