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Renaming row darkens Penny Lane's blue suburban skies Lee Glendinning Monday July 10, 2006 The Guardian It is arguably Liverpool's most famous street, immortalised by Paul McCartney as being "there beneath the blue suburban skies". But under a controversial new plan to right old wrongs, Penny Lane c...

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and of course, Montserrat Figueras...

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Charlotte Rampling...

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What the hell, I feel like posting images today, so...Fanny Ardant..

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mourningstar wrote:Emanuelle Beart

Gosh, is she pretty!. ...,

Indeed.

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Don't have anything to add except that I love my small, but choice, mainly non-classical LP collection and will never get rid of them unless I absolutely have to.

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Yesterday, I listened to: Trois Soeurs--Songs from 13th century France, performed by Stevie Wishart, Vivien Ellis, and Jocelyn West, on the Glossa label. Their voices can be a little thin at times, but overall a good, if not great, performance. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N8NG.01._AA130_...

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Catherine Deneuve is still beautiful. So is the French actress Fanny Ardant, Julianne Moore, Katharine Ross, Sophia Loren( who, at 72, I heard is going to pose nude for the Pirelli calendar!!!!!), Juliette Binoche, Nathalie Baye, Susan Sarandon, Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Pfeiffer, Emanulelle Bear...

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I love Miles' On the Corner. I should listen to it more often. Steve, what a great video. Thanks for sharing it. I'm gonna have to check out more work by that group. Right now I'm listening to The Best of Chet Baker Sings. Chet's voice is an acquired taste--he's far from technically perfect, but for...

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Corlyss, I have: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Bach Cantatas BMV 82 and 199, on Warner's Nonesuch label, and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Handel Arias, Theodora, Serse and Cantata--La Lucrezia, with Harry Bicket and the Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment, on the Avie label. Both are well worth your time a...

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This is absolutely terrible.

One of my very favorite singers. Such a damn tragedy.

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I'm a big fan. I like all kinds of jazz, from the more traditional big band stuff, to stride piano, to the more avant-garde forms of jazz, to jazz vocalists. I can't stand a lot of the newer stuff though. And it definitely doesn't all sound the same to me. I grew up listening to Louis Armstrong and ...

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If you're on dial up, you might have trouble downloading this. I didn't like the music, so I watched it with my speakers turned off.

Anyway, enjoy!

http://www.kitelife.com/videos/demo/bethell_promo.htm

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Whoops, Richard, my mistake. The name of the ensemble is Trio Mediaeval, not Trio Medieval. I love all their albums, but my favorite is Words of the Angel. Also, not all the music on all their albums is medieval, strictly speaking. But it's all beautiful.

Sorry again for the spelling error.

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I would second Ralph's recommendation of the Anonymous 4. Some of my favorite medieval music albums: Anything by Trio Mediaeval, on the ECM label. They're a relatively new group, and their recordings are beautiful. Sequentia--Canticles of Ecstasy--gorgeous music by the amazing visionary composer Hil...

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Well, I really love what I've heard of Debussy and Grieg's works. But I haven't listened to as much of their music as I have the abovementioned three composers....

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My vote is for Chopin, Beethoven, and Schubert.

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Currently listening to: Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis.

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I'm in a similar position to some of you. My best friend lives out west; I just went out there to visit her, at the end of May. It was the first time we'd seen each other in four years. Another close friend of mine has a place in DC, but she's gone for at least six months out of the year, out in Cal...

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Returning to an old favorite: Complete Tales and Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe. Not everyone's idea of summer reading, but I've never read the whole book; to finish it is one of my goals for the summer.

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In the spring and summer: buttered toast, sliced fresh fruit, iced tea or iced coffee.

In the fall and winter: instant oatmeal with milk and honey, hot tea/hot coffee.

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I love Kalamata olives, especially on pizza or as part of a Greek salad, as Reblem mentioned. I think Kalamatas are my favorite, but I like some varieties of green olives too--particularly if they are stuffed with either garlic cloves or almonds.

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Yep.

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I also want to be cremated, and have my ashes scattered off the Oregon coast into the Pacific. The sound of the ocean waves will provide the music.

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Absolutely sublime music. But then, I have come to expect this level of quality from Monserrat, Jordi, and co.

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Got a favorite brand, Ralph?

Also, is the woman pictured in your signature Charlotte Gainsbourg?

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I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I'm not in the mood to go searching for a previous thread. And, since this the Corner Pub, for those of you who drink beer, what's your favorite variety? Right now I really love Lindeman's Cassis Lambic ale: http://www.merchantduvin.com/images/brewery_art...

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Congrats, Wallingford!

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Brendan wrote:Hildegard von Bingen - visionary, poet, gardener, healer composer and mystic wins by a country mile IMHO.

Seconded.

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Currently listening to: Biber--Missa Bruxellensis, as performed by La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations; Alia Vox.

Next up is Luigi Boccherini's Fandango, Sinfonie and La Musica Notturna di Madrid, performed again by Le Concert des Nations; Alia Vox.

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Mine is of being sweaty and sleepy and surrounded by white--white floors, white ceiling, white sheets, bright white fluorescent lights--and having my right arm itch in its cast. I was two years old, I had fallen on my arm and broken it while in my parents car, and I was in a hospital in Havre de Gra...

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Oh man. Frank Zappa's We're Only in it for the Money, and Lumpy Gravy are two of my favorite albums of all time. And the J. Geils Band's Centerfold is a great song, that I remember hearing on the radio all the time while I was a kid.

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Today, I listened to:

The Rose, The Lily and the Whortleberry: Medieval Gardens, performed by the Orlando Consort, on the Harmonia Mundi label....

and currently I'm listening to Hadyn's Complete Harpsichord Concertos, performed by Ton Koopman and the Musica Antiqua Amsterdam, on the Phillips label.

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My dad, who is German, used to have a book of the history of King Ludwig, and it contained many, many pictures of the interiors of his castles. As a child, I remember poring over the photographs in fascination--I remember one picture vividly, of a domed blue ceiling scattered with golden stars; alas...

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currently playing: Sonatas by Francesco Maria Veracini, performed by John Holloway (violin), Jaap ter Linden (violoncello), and Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), on the ECM label. Next up is Jordi Savall's double cd set of Mr. de Sainte Colombe Le Fils, Pieces de Viole: Les Six Suittes pour Basse ...

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I love the mexican, cane sugar-sweetened coke in bottles, too. But there's only one store around here that sells it. Said store isn't close to where I live, so I don't drink it often, which is probably just as well. My second favorite soft drink: Blenheim's Ginger Ale. Really spicy, and utterly deli...

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Thanks, all.

The Ovid symphonies sound intriguing. When I was in high school a million years ago learning Latin, selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses were some of the first things we read.

Thanks again!

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who wishes to. Where should a newcomer like me start? If I were only able to purchase one Dittersdorf cd, what should it be? (I can't afford to purchase a lot of cd's these days, unfortunately.) I don't like male choral music--I prefer female choral voices, don't quite know why but that's just the w...

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edited: I was going to type a long post involving Rwanda and Darfur, but never mind.

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Why Ralph, I'd be honored. It would be great to meet you, if you'll consent to hang out with a troglodyte (in jbuck's words) who listens to and enjoys select forms of rap music.

This really sounds like a beautiful monument, in the midst of one of my favorite cities........

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Thank you for posting this, Ralph. I'd like to go see this monument some day.

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BWV 1080 wrote: But other genres of music like Rock or Country or Rap do not in of themselves constitute something one should feel apologetic for relative to classical music.

Agreed!

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Harold, I don't know if you and your friend would be interested in this, but it's one of my favorite museums in the whole world--the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM. It's dedicated specifically to the work of artists with little or no formal artistic training, and it's full of fascinating and...

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Good news.

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Happy birthday, Lance. Hope you had a great day!

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Corlyss_D wrote:
Please, please, please, Miranda. Rent Anatomy of a Murder and/or Rope.

Will do, Corlyss. I own Duke Ellington's wonderful soundtrack to Anatomy of a Murder, but have yet to see it. I will remedy that soon.

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Penny Lane no more?

Beautiful kite video....

What's your favorite beer?

Talk to me about Dittersdorf, Ralph, and anyone else...