Happy Thanksgiving, Americans!

[Lance]

And just what music do YOU find most suitable and appropriate to listen to on Thanksgiving Day?

[Seán]

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.

[Fergus]

May I second Seán's sentiment and also wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving

[Werner]

Yes, uindeed. it's time for us to wish each other the best for Thanksgiving as well as the upcoming HolidaySeason - along with health, good fortune and a reasonably settled world in the year(s) to come.

[Barry]

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

To answer Lance's question, some good NFL Films music by Sam Spence to get me up for the football games that will be televised.

[HoustonDavid]

I can but hope that everyone has something and someone to be thankful for.
Enjoy the holiday and remember to give thanks.

David Sherman

[Chalkperson]

Starr has come to visit me in New York, we are going to watch The Sound of Music on BluRay...

Happy Turkey Day to all other CMG members...

[piston]

"Be Glad, Then, America"
William Schuman

"Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day"
Charles Ives

I'm opting for American music tomorrow: Copland's Appalachian Spring, Piston's Three New England Sketches, etc.

[Prometheus]

I will be going to work in the morning and then in the evening I will have dinner with my family.

Not sure what I will choose to listen to when driving of yet.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[living_stradivarius]

And just what music do YOU find most suitable and appropriate to listen to on Thanksgiving Day?

Good question. I don't know mainly because all my selections overlap with Fourth of July music

[lennygoran]

>Good question. I don't know <

All I can up with is Vaughan Williams Pilgrim's Progress. Regards, Len

[maestrob]

Happy Thanksgiving to all members & guests!

Especially to our moderator, Lance, for making this forum possible.

[stenka razin]

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all and especially to our dear leader, Lance, for providing us with our daily CMG 'feast' of delicious goodies.

[Seán]

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all and especially to our dear leader, Lance, for providing us with our daily CMG 'feast' of delicious goodies.

Gosh, who is Olga Scheps?

[Fergus]

Starr has come to visit me in New York, we are going to watch The Sound of Music on BluRay...

Happy Turkey Day to all other CMG members...

Delighted to read that Chalkie....all must be well with your good Lady then if she is able for the flight?

[Agnes Selby]

Best wishes to my American friends on this Thanksgiving Day.

Agnes.

[Chalkperson]

Starr has come to visit me in New York, we are going to watch The Sound of Music on BluRay...
Happy Turkey Day to all other CMG members...

Delighted to read that Chalkie....all must be well with your good Lady then if she is able for the flight?

I never told anybody, but, to be truthful, she had another big setback earlier this year when she lost all the muscle surrounding her bones and her weight dropped to 90 pounds, all the things the Doctors tried failed, however one of them had an idea, and, a personal trainer four days a week for the last six months has upped her to 110 pounds of pure muscle, having had the worst two years of our lives we both pray that nothing else goes wrong with her, healthwise...thanks for the kind words...

[piston]

Most meaningful message from all of this, nobody agrees on what to play for Thanksgiving.
Hmm
Meaningful enough?

[Wallingford]

Here, Thaksgiving's primarily a movie day here at home. And we don't eat as much as we did in years past.

[stenka razin]

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all and especially to our dear leader, Lance, for providing us with our daily CMG 'feast' of delicious goodies.

Sean wrote: 'Gosh, who is Olga Scheps?'


Sean, Olga is a brilliant Russian pianist who has recorded two RCA CDs. A Chopin recital and a Russian collection, which actually is quite appealing. You will be hearing much more from this superb virtuoso in the future, my friend.

[living_stradivarius]

I want to write a turkey song for violin. Need to simulate the turkey gobble somehow -- I think the "onomatopoeia" is doable.

[MaestroDJS]

I'm rather partial to the radiant Hymn of Thanksgiving which concludes the opera William Tell by Gioacchino Rossini. They were rejoicing because the hero had just shot the big turkey, figuratively speaking. William Tell is a fabulous opera, all four acts and four hours of it. And the Overture is pretty good too.



I've been reading Hector Berlioz's 4-part analysis of this opera which he wrote in 1834. Colorful reading and insightful comments, as usual for Berlioz, tinged perhaps with a bit of professional envy. Berlioz was critical of Rossini's opera William Tell when it premièred in Paris in 1829. Ironically 5 years later the publisher Troupenas hired Berlioz to correct the proofs of Rossini's score prior to publication, so he had to examine it in detail and his opinion greatly improved. That same year Gazette Musicale de Paris also hired Berlioz to write a 4-part analysis of Rossini's William Tell. It's next on my list of items to translate into English, whenever I get around to it.

Among the many other blessings in my life, I'm thankful that a wealth of historic musical documents like this are available online. It's all a matter of where and how to look.

[jbuck919]

I want to write a turkey song for violin. Need to simulate the turkey gobble somehow -- I think the "onomatopoeia" is doable.

Wattle you do for an encore?

[Wallingford]

I should also add, I'll likely be making this a BIG movie weekend......when I relocated last year, I thought for all the world I'd packed the special remote in my Toshiba DVD-R recorder's original packaging, along with the deck itself. Just recently, though, a Seattle friend told me the remote was nowhere to be found....so I ordered another one ($40....yeeks!) and it came today.

You're LOST without this remote: it formats your recorded DVDs to play on everyone else's deck as well as computer drives. Over the last year I've stockpiled about a hundred recorded discs (done at the slow speed--six hours) with hundreds of TCM movies and out-of-print VHS tapes that I'm now salivating to watch.