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The return of his favorite soprano. :) Barbara Bonney Returns to Concert Stage After Year-Long Hiatus By Matthew Westphal 23 Jul 2007 American soprano Barbara Bonney, who last summer abruptly and mysteriously cancelled all of her engagements, has returned to performing. Last night at the Verbier Fe...

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Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall Dies at 79 By Matthew Westphal 23 Jul 2007 Teresa Stich-Randall, an American lyric soprano who made her career in central Europe and was known for her Mozart and Bach, died in Vienna on July 17 at age 79. The Hartford Courant reported her death two days ago; though she ...

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Santa Fe Opera Names Edo de Waart Chief Conductor By Matthew Westphal 23 Jul 2007 Dutch maestro Edo de Waart, who made his U.S. debut at the Santa Fe Opera back in 1971, has been appointed the company's chief conductor, effective this October. He succeeds Alan Gilbert, who stepped down as music dir...

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Devils Tower

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I'm damned if I can figure out what it is... Corlyss, your seeming inability to grasp this concept is caused not by insufficient aptitude, but by the superpositioning of the multiple quantum states of your understanding. Simply let them dissolve until decoherence occurs. And voilà! You're left with...

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Barry, I deleted my comment about Chailly before you posted.

I agree with you regarding him, it's more "unlikely" than "impossible."

I rather enjoy Pappano's recording of Puccini's La Rondine on EMI, starring Gheorghiu and Alagna.

Gary

Ralph wrote:Andre Rieu

On the other hand, I think Antonio Pappano would be a solid choice. His extensive pit experience acquired from his years with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, would be a plus.

Gary

BWV 1080 wrote:I am a huge John Williams fan. The greatest musician Australia has produced IMO. His technique is perhaps the best of any of his peers, and his Bach playing is immaculate.

He was after all a Segovia pupil.

Continuing the intended mix-up...

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I thought I'd bring back this monthly feature.

Here are the links for July, June and May.

http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnew ... /index.asp

http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnew ... /index.asp

http://www.deccaclassics.com/newsandnew ... /index.asp

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Hang on. To or for what? Perhaps this is an invitation to point out the qualities of his works that make the Bonn Master one of the greatest and most popular of all composers: 1. The intimacy and spiritual depth of his string quartets. 2. The power, passion and originality of his symphonic style. 3...

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Didn't the show use to come on before Nothern Exposure on Monday nights? I watched it occasionally, I was thirteen or fourteen. Not sure about the right gender, but that probably wasn't the right age. I recall there was a big deal made about her decision whether or not to have an abortion. If memory...

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Surely, these guys don't need introduction!

Riccardo Drigo
Eduard Napravnik

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GRATULATIO, John!

some guy wrote:
I think most things that jbuck says are wrong.

To err is human...

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Off topic, but Einstein only really knew German well. He could barely say "yes" and "no" when he first arrived at Princeton. Later on he mastered English to a level that would embarrass most of us (well, certainly not Werner) who were making a stab at a second language begun in maturity. Just getti...

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Thanks, Brendan.

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Chaos is a bit old-hat these days, I would have thought... Yes, but I read slow. :) I bought the book fourteen years ago. I always found Stewart's works on symmetry more interesting. Which book is that? Since we're on the subject, are you familiar with Martin Gardner's The New Ambidextrous Universe...

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Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos
Ian Stewart

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Not everyone thinks these tests will be useful, however. "Not seeing something is hardly evidence for string theory," says Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow of Boston University, Massachusetts, an outspoken critic of string theory. He feels that such a result would mean very little. "String theorists ...

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...I don't see why the experiment couldn't go the other way--a human is in the box, and a kitty opens it to find...a half-dead, half-alive human?? Agreed. :) Most physicists agree that the Copenhagen intrepretation isn't a very good explanation of the weirdness of the quantum world, but it's the be...

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Febnyc wrote:I'll grab this one to hear again.

I got that disc on the cheap last week at a local half price book store.

Gary

Brahms: Breaking the Mold Beethoven Built by Scott Simon and Marin Alsop Weekend Edition Saturday, July 14, 2007 Conductor Marin Alsop has a deep personal feeling for the music of Johannes Brahms. She says she became musically "alive" as a young girl, listening to Brahms, and now she has recorded a...

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His recording of Brahms' violin concerto and the double concerto with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra (the latter also with Leonard Rose). Thankfully, it has been re-released as part of Sony's Essential Classics series. Also, his Symphonie Espagnole by Lalo with the same conductor and orchest...

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FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES! Our great and brilliant master poster will not understand that this is simply Latin for happy birthday, so here I am to say so. Oh, and there was me thinking someone called Felix had passed away... :lol: :lol: :lol: Whose middle and last name are Sit and Natalis, respectivel...

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For half a mo' there, I thought you might be referring to the phenomenon of a conscious universe. Not at all. I was merely probing further into Schrodinger's so-called cat paradox, wherein a cat is placed inside a cage along with a vial containing a poisonous gas, which has a 50% probability of bei...

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Corlyss_D wrote:I must admit to being charmed by the idea that it exists only when we look at it. Makes us all poets.

But what happens when "it" is also a conscious being and is observing you? Who determines whose reality then? Poor Schrodinger's cat. No one's ever considered the problem from its point of view.

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Brahms' 3rd Sym. and Variations on a Theme by Haydn

London Philharmonic Orch.
Marin Alsop
Naxos 8.557430

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FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES!

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Violin Concerto No.1 in E flat major --Paganini Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin & orchestra in A minor --Saint-Saens Havanaise, in E major for violin & orchestra --Saint-Saens Carmen Fantasy for violin & orchestra --Franz Waxman Maxim Vengerov Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Meht...

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Jack Abramoff?

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Watching and listening to:

Carlos Kleiber conducts Carmen! A 1978 Zeffirelli production.

Obraztsova, Domingo

Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

TDK

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Ballet Russe I still haven't finished listening to Ansermet's 8 CD box set of Stravinsky Ballets and Stage Works with the OSR. What I've heard is excellent. Although I’ve not heard Ansermet’s recordings of Stravinsky's music, I’m not surprised that they are excellent. After all, he along with Monte...

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pizza wrote: The law, introduced in 1979 to protect Internet and private-network users from hackers...

One forgets just how long the Internet had been around until Al Gore, er...invented it.

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karlhenning wrote:The lack of clarinets only begins the list of imperfectins in Bach's work

Such as the Basset

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Thanks.

It seems that http://www.stinkyjournalism.org, without the newsdetail.php?id=45, works too.

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Scientists Develop Software to Turn DNA Patterns Into Music By Vivien Schweitzer 29 May 2007 Scientists have developed a way to convert DNA patterns into music, according to a report by the Discovery Channel. Research assistant Rie Takahashi, a microbiologist who studied classical piano for 14 year...

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Brendan wrote:http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/newsdetail.php?id=45

Couldn't link to it at the moment. If it's really fake, then that'll teach me not to trust the local news anymore.

Gary

As much as I admire his virtuosity, I think he plays too fast.

Gary

Agnes Selby wrote:...not so great orchestra from the Netherlands.

I take it it's not the Royal Concertgebouw then. Not even the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

Gary

jbuck919 wrote:
Ralph wrote:I got hungry looking at that photo.
Ralph, I have seen you in two states of your life, and believe me, if looks matter, you look a lot better lean and mean.

Meat doesn't make you fat. Sugar does.

Gary

Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla' May 25 04:21 PM US/Eastern By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Writer http://img.breitbart.com/images/2007/5/25/D8PBKB5G0/D8PBKB5G0.jpg MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An ...

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Have I been away so long to have missed this thread?

Teresa B wrote: I bobbled a few arpeggios and hit a wrong note or three

Oh, you're being too modest, Doc. You know in fact they were improvisations.

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Just found this image.

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Never heard Schumann's complete Manfred . However I prefer hearing narration in Peter and the Wolf . And when done right, the recitation of excerpts from Goethe's Egmont can sound as an integral part of Beethoven's incidental music; here I'm thinking of Abbado's 1991 performance recorded live on new...

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You know, it was an Etruscan prince who violated Lucretia (as in The Rape of).

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Watched a PBS movie adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel The Lathe of Heaven.

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Performed by the Orchestra of the Vienna Court Theater.

http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/inde ... ge=history

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Spohr:
Violin Concerto 8
Heifetz
RCA Victor Orch.

Double Quartet, Op. 65
Heifetz and friends

Beethoven:
Serenade, Op. 8
Heifetz and friends

RCA Victor Gold Seal

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Gratulatio to son and father!

jbuck919 wrote:You mean this was not breaking news about Kennedy announcing his retirement?

I thought it was TR's birthday.

Gary

A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man killed by his own gas. There were no marks found on his body, but an autopsy revealed the presence of large amounts of methane dissolved in his blood. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage, just the ...

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Schubert: The Complete Impromptus, Moments musicaux and 12 German Dances

Alfred Brendel
Philips DUO

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