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With this radio you can say "news" and you get a program telling you what's going on in the world; you can say "sports" and get the best game going on at the time; you can say "classical" and get the best music being played at the time. But you have to be careful, if someone cuts you off and you yel...

How did "Owlice" become "Guest"?

Not surprising. Not long ago a supposedly bootleg recording of Beethoven's Ninth by the Hackensack Volunteer Fire Department Philharmonic Orchestra and Ladies Auxiliary Chorus was passed off as by the Vienna Philharmonic and many critics accepted that, praising the release but noting that it had a ...

Three friends, a mathemetician, architect, and engineer get together. Each claims to have the smartest dog in the world. The mathemetician brings out a batch of cookies and puts them on the floor. He then asks his dog Einstein how much is one and two. The dog goes to the cookie pile removes one cook...

I think Hopefall would like Bruckner, Mahler, and Shostakovich. Their music is definitely not "light classical" and they do get loud.

In the Senior place where I reside there is no death shortage.

Verdi wrote some great bass arias. I especially like those from "Don Carlo" and "Simon Boccanera".

A thread I posted on soprano Margaret Tynes dissappeared when we were hacked. Now she can be heard on Mike Richters website:

http://mrichter.com/opera/welcome.htm

It's strange that her lead song is one that was made popular by another singer of the same genre--Sarah Brightman.

I just checked my TV guide and realized that I missed it. There was a time when we informed each other of special musical events BEFORE they happen.

He may have unsuccessfully tried to register as Cheniston and Violinland and then decided that the user name of Fiddler was beneath his dignity.

Reuben Ticker became Richard Tucker

I didn't think he was that old. He looked much younger than 73 when I saw him in 1995 playing the Brahms 2nd with the Baltimore SO. The only other time I saw him was about 20 years earlier with the BBC Orch. in Albert Hall, London--also playing the Brahms 2nd.

Now living close to the University of Maryland I'm able to take advantage of the musical programs given at the Clarence Smith Performing Arts Center. I never knew until recently that the Marine band had a chamber orchestra. Last Sunday I attended an all Mozart concert by that group. The program, obv...