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Corlyss, I thought you showed more optimism in that earlier post; maybe that was it. Oh, well...doesn't matter, really.

Gary

They issued some interesting ballet CDs by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. I ordered their complete Giselle from Berkshire Record Outlet in 2001. The performance itself is quite good. However, my copy of the Act II disc has the music from Act I on it. :( In the early '90s I picked up their double CD...

Gary

I don't recall, Gary. I don't deny it; I just don't recall. Corlyss, I found it. It's the sixth post from the bottom. http://classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10143 The Han in Taiwan persecuted and excluded aboriginal Chinese... Does that mean I have to retract my assertion about the abse...

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While the CCP is largely a bunch of corrupt thugs, they do deserve credit for opening the economy and preserving stability. Preserving stability is China's specialty. Five thousand years of experience has taught them not to discriminate against the people they want to lord it over, whatever their e...

Gary

Corlyss_D wrote:
Madame wrote:B-b-but I DID go over there ... several times ... and <sniff> you didn't even notice <sniff>.
Did you leave any evidence?

Here

Gary

When I started in the contracting profession, in the late 60s, the only preferential treatment based on race was "black." Then the Hispanics were added, then native Americans, then Asians, then Hawaiians, etc. It never ends: there's always some group that wants preferential treatment because there'...

Gary

And a GRATULATIO to you, Madame!

Gary

They're like the condom version of the Teletubbies.

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GRATULATIO! GRATULATIO! GRATULATIO! One to each.

Gary

Ralph wrote:Oh really? Any car can lead to amor if it has a decent stereo system AND the hopeful guy driving it has cleverly put a Dittersdorf CD on.

You forgot two cans of Diet Coke in the cup holders, Ralph.

Gary

Strauß's Blue Danube Waltz

Gary

jbuck919 wrote:Unfortunately, Lang Lang's performance was not faked.

Fortunately, it was inaudible.

Gary

Got this one on the cheap.

Gary

But I heard Bob Costas explaining that countries are ranked in ascending order according to the number of brushstokes used to spell the country's name in Chinese. It is quite possible for several characters--each representing a different country--to have the same number of brushstrokes and yet look...

Gary

New Year's Concert in Vienna (1991) with C. Abbado leading the Philharmonic.

Gary

"Wunnerful, Wunnerful!" as Lawrence Welk used to say. My favorite Rach sonata, too.

Gary

Good luck, Piston. Sounds like a Herculean task!

Gary

Amirov: Six pieces for flute and piano Amirov wrote a ballet based on The Arabian Nights . http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ce/29/04508bacd7a03e54810f6110._AA240_.L.jpg # Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Nazim Rzaev, Rauf Abdullayev # Orchestra: Azerbaijan Symphony Orchestra, Bolsho...

Gary

Does it contain trans fat?

Gary

I don't really know much about anything she's attempted in the past... I think a couple of B movies (one of which Piston has already mentioned) and one, let's just say, has a rating that doesn't fall in the G to R range. :wink: Her comments hold no value for real people. The only people that her wo...

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Paris responds to McCain ad.

http://cdn.funnyordie.com/videos/4178033806

Gary

I find their orchestral recordings ho-hum; so I would avoid those unless it's something you've never heard before. The others are pretty good.

Gary

piston wrote:...his fairyland ballets with the support of a devoted, intelligent, resourceful woman who, it so happens, derived her wealth from railway construction....

We ballet fans can't thank her enough!

Gary

Frank Peter Zimmermann

He mainly recorded for EMI. Love his Mozart concertos.

Gary

As a Chinese, I must say that China's behavior on an international stage of this size is a huge embarrassment to Chinese everywhere--major face-losing!

Gary

They're also selling photographs of famous musicians and such.

Gary

Alan Loveday

Aaron Rosand

Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Igor Oistrakh (certainly lesser-known than his father)

Gary

This article is taken from BBC Music Magazine 's April 1994 issue. I typed this, so there may be typos. Perfect sound for ever? The recent reports on CDs’ durability—or lack of it—have caused a great stir among record buyers, reports Barry Fox. But are we still the victims of a cover-up? Recent sho...

Gary

C. Kleiber's Carmen

Gary

Madame wrote:
Gary wrote:FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES!!!
Thank you, Gary. Is that Latin? Or is it something about Natalie Wood's cat? <the devil made me say that >

It's the former.

Gary

FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES!!!

Gary

Parentheses can be used in complex queries, such as: "If you're searching for more than one phrase or keyword in addition to the Boolean, you can group them with parenthesis, such as recipes gravy (sausage | biscuit) to search for gravy recipes for either sausages or biscuits. You could even combin...

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But why do we have to place parentheses before & after? That I'm afraid I can't answer. That's just the nature of the beast. You don't have to do this on google or alta vista or dogpyle or... Allow me to demonstrate the superiority of the parentheses & quotation marks method. :wink: In Image 1 belo...

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Performing Mozart is extremely difficult. Lily Kraus used to say that children play Mozart well. It is because they do not yet know the complexity of his music. Agnes. Spoken like someone who knows a thing or two about Mozart--both you, Agnes , and Lily Kraus. :wink: :) The Viennese conductor Josef...

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Welsh ensemble What's the name of this Welsh ensemble, Rob? That is the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. [/size] Found these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/now/sites/orchestra/pages/about.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/now/sites/orchestra/pages/history.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/now...

Gary

RebLem wrote:Welsh ensemble

What's the name of this Welsh ensemble, Rob?

Gary

the Search box it comes back to tell me I shouldn't put the word "of" in there. Search engines generally don't like prepositions and (in)definite articles, so leave out the following: of , for , the , a , an , etc. So then if I put "recordings Rienzi" I obtain results of both words separately. I wo...

Gary

A well deserved Gratulatio, Donald!

Werner wrote:Whose moustache - Donald's or Schnabels's?

Gary

Another well deserved GRATULATIO!

Gary

Can there be more talk of Dittersdorf, more information/details on contemporary music composers, opera, performers, favourite CDs, new CDs, etc., et al.? We need more talk pertaining to ballet music. More important, we need to talk about Cesare Pugni at least once--the "Dittersdorf" of ballet music...

Gary

FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES!!!

Gary

Wine, Women and Song :lol: Strausz Topo , That's a purely orchestral piece, not a song. So it doesn't count. :) However, there are several places in Die Fledermaus where they sing about wine and drinking. Act 1: Nr. 5 Finale: Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell (Alfred, Rosalinde, Frank) Act 2: Nr. 7 ...

Gary

A vinyl evening: http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s810668.jpg I've been reading Volume 2 of Stephen Walsh's biography of Stravinsky, and I dug out this LP of Agon (SWR Baden-Baden Orch conducted by Hans Rosbaud)(shortest LP ever?). Agon has always been rare on disc, and I'd like to have...

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Does anyone know of something rare in opera or song that deals with this subject? How about an oratorio instead, Lance, as in Haydn's The Seasons ? 31. Chorus Joyful the liquor flows, that by degrees refined, high-sparkling cheers the soul! Hurrah! Produce the mighty bowl! Now let us merry be! Let ...

Gary

FELIX SIT NATALIS DIES!!!

Gary

Corlyss_D wrote:How'd you do that, Gary?

I used an image capture program called "SnagIt" and used its editing tools to place the blue circle on there.

http://store.techsmith.com/order/snagit.asp

Gary

slofstra wrote:June 15.

A man sitting on a rock in the lower left corner of the picture provides a sense of scale. I've isolated his figure in the second photo. See if you can find him in the first.

There.

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Gary

There's one called The Book of 101 Opera Librettos; it has both that you're looking for. It's not perfect but it does the job. By the way, most complete opera CD sets come with librettos. So you may not need a book like this.

See here.

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