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MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:I really love this image from the Website...did she win...

Really want me to give it away? [smiley suppressed]

no..........made the semi-finals but not the finals

MarkC

HoustonDavid wrote:Some very old, well aged Scriabin, from a distinct label and a very dusty instrument
if you get my idiosyncrasity. [deleted smiley]

Not sure I do, unless you mean that my sig has made you see that link hundreds of times......

MarkC

NancyElla wrote:
MarkC wrote:A bit off the subj, but........the music that to me is absolutely the most distinctive of anything is:
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
(And I think I'm really serious........)
And I think you've been into the Scriabin again!

Very true!

As it says down there......

MarkC

Can you please give specifics on the recital, MarkC, time where to get tickets, etc. Maybe my daughter will stop by to catch the recital. Good luck with it. I hope you have a good piano! Thanks for noticing (I sort of "hid" it a little) :mrgreen: and for asking. (And thanks to you also, Saul.) It's...

MarkC

A bit off the subj, but........the music that to me is absolutely the most distinctive of anything is:

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

(And I think I'm really serious........)

MarkC

Good job! One of my favorite pieces........It's one of those things that works for any occasion, literally. It's a great opener for a concert. It's a great encore. And it's an encore that you can play after anything -- you can play it after a rollicking Liszt rhapsody, or after most solemn works tha...

MarkC

I think the "distinct idiom" thing is overrated. Or at least if it's not, I'm awfully stupid. :lol: I consider myself more knowledgeable than the average bear about these things, yet if I hear a work that I don't know, I'm almost always just guessing about the composer, and I'm often wrong. I'll alm...

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.....5 - And finally, what for me is the greatest and yet most elusive of Chopin’s masterpieces, the Fantasie in f, Op. 49. Among my favorites too. I've tried to discuss it a bit on a piano discussion site -- and whenever I do, most people say it's not so great. And as if that weren't enough, they ...

MarkC

......certainly there are about 10 seconds worth of skittish V7 arpeggios at the point where the slow movement gives way to the finale. We're talking about op. 81a, right? Yes, 81a. He said he was talking about the opening of the finale. Sounds like you're talking about the little "intro" before th...

MarkC

val wrote:My choice:

Polonaise opus 44......

How great it is to see that!!!
I didn't imagine anyone else would have it as #1, or even on the list at all.

Do you have a favorite performer for it?

MarkC

Observations and opinions, not accusations.

MarkC

"Major-minor 7th" is a term I encountered in theory class..... It refers to a major triad with a minor 7th on top...... I knew that such a thing existed altogether......I meant that there's no such thing THERE -- i.e. in that passage. Sorry I wasn't clearer. (Did you think his analysis pertained? I...

MarkC

Here's this morning's list. By tomorrow (even by this afternoon) it could change...... Indeed. And thanks for giving me an opening to give these other lists: :mrgreen: My list when I was 15: 1. Polonaise in Ab major, Op. 53 2. Polonaise in F# minor, Op. 44 3. Scherzo #2 (Bb minor, Op. 31) 4. Ballad...

MarkC

Saul, do you write just for yourself, or do you hope to influence others? If the latter, this ain't a way to do it. Clearly, Saul is not hoping to influence others, i.e., those who are not Orthodox Jews. I have relatives and close friends who are Orthodox, including a rabbi (and I mean "real" Ortho...

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.....Saul, do you write just for yourself, or do you hope to influence others? If the latter, this ain't a way to do it. Mark, you are relatively new here. You will soon realise that Saul is engaged in promoting anti-Semitism. He doesn't realize it but it's sort of true. As a fellow Jew, I am frank...

MarkC

Lance wrote:Well, it's just one comment......

......and sorry that the basketball stuff has been more than one comment.

We'll make sure not to expand it into a full-fledged hijack.

MarkC

......I remember one Paul Seymour--a real roughian...... :( ......who was rewarded by being made coach!!! BTW....even further off the subj, but.......I have the 1957 Topps cards of the whole starting lineup of that team: Seymour Costello (not Lou) :mrgreen: Kerr Schayes Conlin I got them so I could...

MarkC

.....thereby rejecting the identity of "Party of No" in favor of "Party of Moe, Larry & Curly."

MarkC

Thanks, Lance!
And in case you're reading this, Corylss -- looking forward to seeing you back! And hope you're doing reasonably all right.

MarkC

I dunno........I mean, I personally make a point of putting that space between the "T." and the "S." However, notice that I didn't make a point (no pun intended) of adding an extra "." after the "S." up there. i.e. The "." represented both the dot after the "S" and the period for the end of the sent...

MarkC

Saul -- I just skimmed your post (I hope you don't think a lot of people will actually read such a post). And let me say........ You're not going to help much toward world peace by saying stuff like: .......The Christian religion fails to understand...... ......or....... .........And we also can rec...

MarkC

P.S. I "insist" on being allowed an alternate list

......the 5 Chopin works that we don't hear enough:

1. Tarantelle, Opus 43
2. Introduction and Rondo in Eb major, Opus 16
3. the Polonaise that I picked as #1 above, Opus 44 in F# minor
4. Impromptu in Gb major, Opus 51
5. almost any Mazurka

MarkC

.....Dolph Schayes..... I'll never forget his high arching set shot--amazing--of course I hated the Syracuse Nationals because they always winded up slaughtering my cherished NY Knicks! My favorite Carl Braun had a pretty good set shot too! Regards, Len :) (.....and looks like maybe Chalkie knew of...

MarkC

Nocturne in D flat, op.27 no.2 Ballade no.1 op.23 Polonaise op.53 Barcarolle op.60 Mazurka op.41 no.4 in C sharp minor...... Love it!!!!! The whole subject, and your chosen 5. I live and die by Chopin, and have for most of my life, but I've never thought of a "top 5" before -- and I'll enjoy it. Le...

MarkC

I cast a vote here for "Les adieux".....there's nothing to compare, in all of Beethoven's literature, with the finale's opening B-flat major-minor-7 chord (followed by skittish arpeggios on same) symbolizing Ludwig & the Archduke's big bear hug at their reunion. I love the sonata, but I gotta wonde...

MarkC

Egon Petri (Columbia 78s), especially for the first movement, Michelangeli especially for the second movement. Funny.........while it would seem mostly impossible to separate those out for a piece like this, it does make sense. Yet, wouldn't it seem odd if someone programmed either movement separat...

MarkC

......He just used his initials to create the company name, but I would not want that KGB connotation either. Absolutely. If my initials were A-S-S, I wouldn't use those for my company's name either. IMO this is even worse -- truly. It would almost be like having the name of Hitler and having to li...

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(Just in case anyone is puzzled and wants to google it, that's KGB.) :) BTW.....there's some kind of company called "KGB" that's been running commercials on TV and radio. (I hear them a lot on N.Y. Yankee broadcasts.) I wonder if either the company or the stations have a clue about what 'else' those...

MarkC

Lance wrote:......Like heck you don't get it! I learned that reading the new Richter book.....

BTW.....it's not that I don't find it of interest. I do.
Why?
That's complicated.

MarkC

And I'm not sure that he was HS. Where's the smoking gun? He was married and a father, that's the only smoking gun I know of. Well that proves it!!!!!! :lol: (Y'know, the quasi-Freudian interpretation of 'counterphobic behavior' and denial and all that -- by which Casanova and Don Juan were gay too!)

MarkC

HoustonDavid wrote:Well I didn't......

......and actually I didn't either.
When I said that I knew, I had lost track of who we were talking about, between all these threads......

(Not gonna say who I thought it was.)

MarkC

oy vey.........

(yes I did know that)

MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:........Bridge is a Card Game...

Well yeah

(you used that smiley so I figured I may also) [sm. suppr.] but I already referred to that and it seemed you had meant that wasn't it.

(Who am I............why am I here?) [sm. suppr]

MarkC

.....How good is Elly Ney? As is well known she was a certain dictator's favourite pianist which didn't help her later career. If we can put this aside did she stand with the many listed above?i I'm sorry to say she was real good. I didn't know either, so I checked YouTube.....and there's quite a b...

MarkC

......Surely, this book is all about hearsay...... Good point, but IMO it's not the degree of problem that you say. "Hearsay" is that much of a problem only in court. In 'real life,' we rely on it all the time -- and that includes in most biographies. And arguably it's extra important (if not criti...

MarkC

......The pianist who attempts the most and who has come the closest to capturing even half of what is in this music is Schnabel. The best of the rest capture, on their best days, perhaps 25%. :wink: Schnabel was quoted as saying something like that he was glad when he achieved 40% of what he tried...

MarkC

Looks to me like the writer couldn't make up his mind if he was being sympathetic or sarcastic.

MarkC

Lance wrote:......As I recall, his wife is also a pianist.....

Yes she is (Tania Heidsieck). They both studied with Cortot.
My wife and I have spent some time with them. He speaks terrific English; she doesn't. Fortunately my wife speaks French.

MarkC

I looked especially to see if you have HEIDSIECK, and I'm glad to see that you do.
I didn't expect it.

I've had the privilege of working with him a bit. He's a remarkable pianist and person, and not well enough known in the U.S.

MarkC

No foolin', Lance -- I haven't a clue!

(Although......when I checked a little to try to find out, I saw that he was "of Jewish descent," which I did not know. Quite surprising for a "Saint," is it not......)

MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:Wassup, you can't even remember what you posted yesterday...

Maybe not! [sm. suppr]
I don't remember saying anything about cards except that post about bridge which I mentioned.
And that wasn't yesterday...... ["shrug" smiley suppressed only with great resolve]

MarkC

Thanks for posting about it!
I might have to get it.

MarkC

Lance wrote:.....DYKWIM?

GOT IT -- and yes I do.

....BTW.....

Got it

.....CS-S.....

Got it

.......was a HS.....

Don't get it.

HS.......let's see........
"High school"? no
Medical abbreviation for "bedtime"? nah, that doesn't work either

Hmmmmm..........

MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:You mean that when you are playing cards and listening to Opus 111 you hear Scott Joplin...

Huh......is this about the "bridge" thing?
Otherwise, you got me. [sm. suppr]

MarkC

maestrob wrote:I am fascinated by the jazzy rhythms in Op. 111....

Absolutely. One of the variations IS "ragtime."
I mean, it isn't exactly, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

MarkC

Music.....sets language pathways in the brain, especially when studied early in life - it establishes pathways for many to learn another language more easily, according to many brain researchers..... Yes -- well said. Although......we don't even need that to "defend" the original study. IMO all we ...

MarkC

NancyElla wrote:And I was certain that DS was Dmitri Shostakovitch. . .

Probably a better guess than the actual answer.

MarkC

Article in NY Times:

In Greek Crisis, Some See Parallels to U.S. Debt Woes

MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:......Razor Ruddock.....

For a while I sort of thought he and Riddick Bowe were the same guy. [smiley suppressed]

Greatest heavyweight boxing disappointments of our generation:
1. Riddick Bowe
2. Buster Douglas

Although of course in his own way Tyson out-disappoints them all.

MarkC

Chalkperson wrote:....I can't believe that a man, who, like myself eats no veal, could possibly make jokes about hunting...

No SMILIE in one of my posts, and you thought I was making a joke? [smiley suppressed]

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