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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4JrfyMVbPs

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Likewise. Hope it was a great one.

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Hope it was a ganz toll one!

--Neil

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http://cdrecyclingcenter.org/recycle-now/index I just thought I'd list the above address for the benefit of anyone wondering what to do with discarded discs--like me, for instance: I'm on my second or third CD-R recorder, a used one, and it's been temperamental about recording on a specific CD (the ...

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Don't know why I didn't latch onto these before, but as we know, Josef Krips never saw fit to make any commercial recordings while music director of the San Francisco Symphony (1963-70). He never thought they were quite good enough! In those years he occupied himself with rebuilding the orchestra (w...

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http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment ... tarts-slow

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I don't like Gieseking's Mozart & Beethoven performances; both composers sound emasculated, dressed in a pink tutu. It would seem as if the pianist perceived those composers's works (as well as those masters who preceded them) as thoroughly lacking in expression and passion. One "foolproof" way I ca...

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When I lived in Eugene, I was at an early-90s concert where the local orchestra played one of Hovhaness' many symphonies, and he was present along with an aide/partner. I had him sign my program, but I lost it in the move to Seattle.

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An update on my whole situation: The Computer Doctors in Ft. Collins sold me a nice, refurbished Latitude for $319 plus tax, and they were able to get my entire Windows Media Player library intact (for an extra $50). I'm quite pleased, especially as there's no degradation in sound quality....sounds...

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An update on my whole situation: The Computer Doctors in Ft. Collins sold me a nice, refurbished Latitude for $319 plus tax, and they were able to get my entire Windows Media Player library intact (for an extra $50). I'm quite pleased, especially as there's no degradation in sound quality....sounds...

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Well, I've got wall stacks full of CDs of pop, classic rock, vocals, country....not to mention a little comedy & novelty. Makes me wonder how I'll keep it all now that I've got a move coming up one of these months. (And then there're all those records and cassettes and DVDs to ponder!) Myself, I gre...

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Last summer I spun the Abravanel set, on Vanguard.

Okay, pretty pedestrian, compared with the great ones, though he gives the necessary rise to the occasion in the popular Second.

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When I was still in Seattle, I lived a hop, skip and jump away from a guy about my mother's age who collected every thingamajig relating to audio & video reproduction--he collected things like RCA's SelectAVision (the Edsel of videodisc players), the Bose Wave, and those little 45-rpm-only players t...

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Robert & Gaby Casadesus, in an old Columbia LP of French piano-four-hand music:

Debussy's Petite Suite
Satie's Trois pieces en forme du poire
Faure's Dolly Suite
Chabrier's Trois valses romantiques

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Beethoven's Piano Concerto #3 (Iturbi)
Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" (Gaubert)
Hindemith's Mathis der Maler and Symphony for Brass & Percussion (Monteux)

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...and salutations from the birthday boy himself. Thanks, one and all. Myself, I spent the day feeling 56 all around, with my backache bugging me more than it had been....but there was good company, a few relatives over (they've chipped in to help me get a new or refurbished laptop). I treated mysel...

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Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour

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Mendelssohn's "Scottish" (Munch)

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Because it was a most affecting tragedy?

Because the tragedy ignited the imaginations of several composers?

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Schumann's Carnaval and Fantasy (Casadesus)

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Liszt's two Piano Concertos (Sauer/Weingartner)
Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony (Toscanini)
Borodin's Second (Toscanini)
Brahms' Second (Ormandy 1)

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These days, I'm duping some live BSO tapes and ripping them to my Windows Media Player: Franck's Symphony in d (Koussevitzky) Shostakovich's Fifth (from 8/9/75, preceded by announcement by Ozawa of composer's death to a shocked audience) Mozart's "Haffner" Sym. (Walter) Wagner's Siegfried Idyll (Wal...

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Sessions' Symphony #2 (Blomstedt)
Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges (Ansermet)

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Webern's Symphony, Op. 21
Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments
....conducted by Nagano

Gould's Lincoln Legends
Liszt's From the Cradle to the Grave
Harris' Third
Creston's Frontiers and Choric Dance #2
....conducted by Toscanini

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You know, I've been suppressing the damnedest desire to add a few (predictable) barbs of my own here.....

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I've got a somewhat-scuffed-up LP reissue on RCA Camden of Schmitz's Book I.

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....also Mozart's 35th (Edwin Fischer live w/Royal Danish Orch.)

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Music of Richard Yardumian:

His Violin Concerto (Brusilow/Ormandy) and his Psalm 130 (Zulick/Ormandy).

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Debussy's Welte piano roll of La cathedrale engloutie cleared up the metrical mystery of the piece's time signature, 6/4=3/2. It actually meant that 6'4 equals two bars of 3/2, and the basic pulse is whichever note value predominates in a passage, half notes or quarter notes. Many "golden age" piani...

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Mozart's "Jupiter" (Kahane...live w/SFS)
Sibelius' Second (Mann)
Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela (Toscanini)
Saint-Saens' Orchestral Suite in D, Op. 49 (Kantorow)

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Here's a real one-star pic: Wholly Moses!, starring Dudley Moore. I knew, even at time of release (early '80), that this was meant as Hollywood's big mainstream rip-off of Monty Python's Life Of Brian . You see, whereas the latter was about a mensch whose life paralleled Christ's (being born just ac...

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jbuck919 wrote:Goodness, man, you and a million Parisians have got to be kidding about Jerry Lewis.

Actually, I'm holding off on any opinion of Lewis until I get to see The Day The Clown Cried. Which I won't get to, as it's unreleased.

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My list has since been updated to include movies I've seen since.

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http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2015/ ... s-suddenly

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Well, this is old news (which I never reported), but for my birthday laste June I bought myself DGG's complete Brahms box.

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Thanks. I'll see, if and when I get the new computer in July.

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A vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote, and as such it's as much an abdication of responsibility as not voting at all. Those who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 should be ashamed of themselves; if not for them, George Bush would not have become president, the U.S. would not have invaded ...

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Haydn's 102nd; Mozart's 38th.

(Beecham, live w/CSO)

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Switching to a film on the list that considerably disappointed me: Sense & Sensibilty . Now let me say first that its director, Ang Lee, I consider to be one of our finest living filmmakers. I think he fully deserved the two Best Director Oscars he won for Brokeback Mountain and Life Of Pi (even wit...

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I've got To Kill A Mockingbird in my "play" pile.

I see where it made #2 on the AFI list of "the hundred most inspiring movies of all time," second only to It's A Wonderful Life. (Not that I don't think the American Film Institute's really a lot of hooey.)

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I'm anticipating getting a new laptop in the next couple of months...which would be quite welcome, as both computers in the house use a browser that Windows quit supporting since last year. (In fact, I purchased a brand new router just last week--we'd been without home internet for a month.) I have ...

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Thanks for the advice, John....I never was able to get a clip in a message except the old-fashioned way. I'll bear this in mind next time.

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I know this is old news, but I found it out just today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/arts/ ... .html?_r=0

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Another four-star pick: Up The Down Staircase. Director Robert Mulligan gives this 60s high school drama an admirably naturalistic feel: lots of intentionally jittery camerawork. There is real catharsis in the conclusion as the young lady teacher ponders whether or not to continue with the challengi...

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Here are some films from my list above which I'd give the full four stars: The Artist -- A nice story, well told. Although I don't know why so many critics did handstands over this one, and half of them, 25 years ago, gave lackluster reviews to Charles Lane's silent black-and-white comedy-drama Side...

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My first hearings of classical music in about three months:

Bizet's Symphony in C (Bernstein)
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony (Bernstein)
Roussel's Suite in F (Coppola)

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Note to Rob:

As I recall, Toscanini did a lot of snipping out in Tchaikovsky's Manfred.

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Let's start with a couple of musicals. First, It's A Pleasure , directed by William A. Seiter and starring Sonja Heine and Michael O'Shea. A romantic comedy about a hockey star who's gone off the wagon and his troubled marriage to a skater. ***1/2 Next, Lullaby of Broadway , directed by David Butler...

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Actually, Truffaut directed The Last Metro , and Bergman did Cries & Whispers . And the Monkey Business I listed isn't the Marx Brothers one (which I didn't see), but an early 50s flick with Cary Grant as a scientist who accidentally stumbles across a serum reverting humans back to the simian stage.

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It's time to revive the flagging Movie Forum. During my recovery these last three months, my brain somehow or other didn't have much desire to listen to music, so instead I thought I'd catch up on a few of the 600+ movies I've dubbed to DVD but haven't watched yet. You're invited to share your impre...

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