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It may be even more complicated than what has been discussed so far. A key phrase is "Russian immigrants". Quite a few Russians emigrated to Israel under false pretenses claiming to be Jewish when they were not. Giving Israel's limited resources it would not be unreasonable for such people to lose t...

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At a Baltimore Symphony casual concert some years ago, David Zinman said that he liked the music to "Sleeping with the Enemy", but thought that composer Jerry Goldsmith borrowed heavily from Rachmaninoff.

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The Guarneri Quartet is also wrapping it up. The three original members are in their seventies. Do you know anything about this? http://www.arkivmusic.com/graphics/covers/non-muze/full/150843.jpg Guarneri/ Beethoven/ Complete String Quartets There appears to be a Guarneri Qt. revival perhaps due to...

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My favorite is Miklos Rozsa's "Spellbound"

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The Guarneri Quartet is also wrapping it up. The three original members are in their seventies.

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A good friend of mine was in a high school production of "The Pirates of Pensance" with Kovacs. Kovacs played the Pirate King; my friend the head constable.

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If he was born in 1931 he became a 13 year old Luftwaffe ace!!!

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This production has been around for several years and has been shown on PBS. I didn't like the updated staging but enjoyed the singing especially Mark Delavan as Scarpia.

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So far from the truth, GK. It's a problem I encounter with the Haydn/Mozart symphony club: the variations between symphonies are quite limited compared to 20th century composers. But with Ralph Vaughan Williams, there can be no doubt about the composer's versatility or ability to shape the musical ...

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Chalkperson wrote:You don't have a box for the, None of the above Thank You, kind of listener...

Another suggested box--"They all sound the same"

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Sunday afternoon at the Schlesinger Concert Hall at Northern Virginia Community College, the Marine Band Chamber Orchestra replicated the program that was played in the White House February 17, 1906 at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice, as follows: Wagner-- Grand March from Tannhaus...

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A significant development--In the USA Today/Gallop poll released today, for the first time in a long while, Clinton does better against McCain than Obama.

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For how long will Obama allow himself to be associated with this guy? Someone who gives an award to Farrakhan the year that his noted parishioner is running for president is no friend. If Obama gets the nomination and this issue festers, he will hear about it from the Post, Daily News, Giuliani, Lie...

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Except for Eileen Farrell, no opera singer has ever sung jazz or pop as well as any fair to middling jazz or pop singer.

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Good grief!! The Kropp story has been revived. We've heard it before. It's a hoax, an urban legend.

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Looks like fun! :D Thanks for posting the pictures; it's nice to put a face with a name. Speaking of which... http://a605.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/128/m_7e90da248a52273720999038f7359b04.jpg I took that last month on Cozumel. That's my serious face. :wink: -G(arrett) Your nickname and vacat...

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Congratulations on pulling this meeting off. I appreciated seeing the pictures. Except for Ralph and Don Isler whose pictures I'd seen earlier, nobody looked as I imagined them. The biggest surprise was Lance. With his historic knowledge of the recording industry I visualized a much older man.

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I dug out my tape of the Met performance with Millo, Domingo, Zajic, and Milnes, conducted by Levine. It's a very good production and is available on DVD.

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Aren't instruments of this value usually insured?

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The program is on tonight in the Baltimore-Washington area--9PM on Ch.22; 10PM on CH.26.

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Eugene Onegin comes to mind. It has only 4 characters of any importance, one of whom appears in the last act. It does have a GRAND scene.

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It can't be Butterfly which is a 20th century opera which has important characters other than the 4 mentioned--the marriage broker, the uncle, the rich guy who wants to marry her.

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This should help:

http://beautyinmusic.com

Click on violinists

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I googled the name of the composer of the first opera that came to mind from the description and may have struck gold--

Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa

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piston wrote:Interesting topic to research! Manuel de Garcia and his opera troop first performed Rossini's Barber of Siviglia in November 1825, New York, New York.

Correct!!

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The first performance of an Italian opera in the United States was on November 29, 1825. What was the opera and where was it performed?

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The NAACP complaint is foolish and the school board's surrender is cowardly. If anyone has a complaint it is the Native Americans (I almost typed "I-----s") who did complain about this in the past. When Hollywood made a movie version in 1945 the name was changed to "And Then There Were None", a titl...

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We recently joined NETFLIX and were delighted to find out that a large number of operas were available. Last night we saw a film of Madame Butterfly starring a young Mirella Freni and a young Placido Domingo. It was conducted by Karajan. We had seen it about 30 years ago when it was shown on PBS. It...

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The Polaris Trio consisting of oboist Mark Hill, violist Katherine Murdock, and pianist Audrey Andrist performed at our senior development Sunday evening. The program consisted of various combinations of the three instruments, as follows: J.S. Bach--Trio Sonata in G Minor for oboe, viola, and piano ...

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People here often complain about music that is excessively dry and thorny. How about music that is so bland, it brings to mind a very harsh description of some of Rimskii-Korsakov's less effective music: silken sound totally devoid of content? I was so boiling mad after having wasted an entire hour...

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Nicolai Moscona was Toscanini's favorite basso.

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A surprisingly good CD from the BBC Magazine record club not noted for its renditions of basic repertory items:

Beethoven Sym.#6--Boult, BBC SO
Brahms--Sym.#2--Pritchard, BBC SO

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I am once again listening to Gustav Mahler's second symphony, and I have a question for all those who are familiar with the Inbal recording (RSO Frankfurt, 1985): Is it just me, or is there actually a constant humming in the background during the fifth movement, possibly by the conductor himself? I...

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Video of NYPO opening night concert recorded earlier. An all Dvorak concert including: Carnival Overture Cello Concerto Symphony #7 Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Loren Maazel, Cond. These concerts are always pleasurable. The highlight for me was the concerto but I did not like this Ma performance as much as his e...

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He came a Kropper!

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Although I realise that this is unseasonal as it's 6 months away, I remember someone at the Radio Times (the BBC's programme listings guide) a few years ago who slipped in the following "impossibly unfeasible" gem into the April 1st programme listings; Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5 NYPO/ Boulez :lol: I...

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Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works, including-- Capriccio espagnol May Night Sadko, Op.5 The Tale of Tsar Saltan The Golden Cockerel Symphony No.2, Op.9, Antar Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op.36 David Zinman, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philips (2CDs) The man wrote a lot of great stuff in addition to...

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I wonder if he ever got Slovakia and Slovinia straight? That was an earlier gaffe.

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My only experience with Carlo Zecchi was as the conductor of a superb rendition of "Symphonie Fantastique" on a Parliament LP.

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Sholom Secunda is now best known for his two big mistakes--

Selling his song "Bi Mir Bist Du Schon" for a pittance before the Andrews Sisters made it a hit.

Turning down the opportunity to collaborate on a musical with George Gershwin.

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Congratulations! The only greater achievement occurred on Aug.3 when Ted Kennedy cast his 15,000th Senate vote.

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I just listened to a live recording of Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto by Leif Ove Andsnes with Paavo Berglund conducting the Oslo Philharmonic. The long applause at the end started very ordinary then turned rhythmic. The location of the concert was not provided.

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Ralph--For the first time on this board you hedged. Since you attended both concerts tell us who is the better conductor--Langree or Beethoven?

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The Sunrise Quartet is one of several chamber groups that performs at our senior development. They have been together since 1991 and perform regularly on the east coast but primarily in the Washington D.C. area. They perform at the National Gallery of Art under the name National Gallery Quartet. Sun...

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I know that CMG threads have been deleted, but how about wiped out?

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I know Ivan Rebroff only for his awful falsetto performance in the Carlos Kleiber recording of "Fledermaus".

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Also recommended is the other "High Fidelity", a documentary about the Guarneri Quartet.

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You listed soprano Margaret Tynes as born in 1929. Although several web sites give this incorrect date, the diva, who lives in my residential community, was actually born in 1919.

I work hard to check up on you. Not really, but I did some Google research on Margaret and came across this item.

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Yehudi Menuhin--Violinist, conductor, and humanitarian. Also, Sir GK would be quite becoming.

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