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- Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:13 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Movies: Great Second Choices
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5342
Movies: Great Second Choices
Sometimes the first choice for a movie role isn't available or can’t finish the job and must be replaced. Now and then this works for the best. Filming of the 1950 MGM version of Annie Get Your Gun began with Judy Garland before her personal problems caused her removal. There is some footage of a so...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:32 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 2843
- Views: 1030606
This morning I engaged in the only form of multi-tasking I do well: listening to music while watching sports – in this instance both were as German as can be. Das Rheingold (Haitink’s recording) was the soundtrack to the Bayern München vs. Werder Bremen soccer match. Come to think of it Bayern’s gre...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:27 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Bourbon anyone?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8927
Bourbon anyone?
Normally a Scotch drinker, I’ve been sampling Bourbons lately. Would anyone like to recommend some brands? Let’s throw in Tennessee whiskies too in the discussion. While it will be fun to try a range of makes, ultimately I want to find a good inexpensive whiskey for regular sipping. Fortunately, Ame...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:29 pm
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- Topic: Ice cream
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6347
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:29 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Fight at school
- Replies: 56
- Views: 11894
Maybe the fight resolved something or will lead to a resolution. When I think back to school days I can recall situations that would have improved by means of a fight - win, lose or draw. Long-simmering anger, resentment, shame, etc. may be less healthy, and even lead sometimes to greater violence, ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:19 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: All Ain't Well in Cincinnati
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5227
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:08 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: All Ain't Well in Cincinnati
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5227
After years of subscribing to the Baltimore Symphony I found myself not enjoying concerts anymore. The whole experience became tiresome. I attend two or three each season to provide company for an elderly friend but each time my aversion is reconfirmed. I still love the music but I'd rather listen t...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:56 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Airports
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6675
The most efficient and pleasant large airport that I know of is Schiphol near Amsterdam. The environment is attractive, clean and well-maintained, information is found very easily, and the place is well-staffed. Check-in, security, and shopping all run more smoothly than at other airports I've visit...
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:00 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Eyesight
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12772
Nine times out of ten anything you can't find is in the first place you thought to search but you overlooked it somehow. The exception is usually an item you leave in one place routinely but thanks to a distraction, such as a phone call, placed somewhere else - out in plain sight, but where you'd ne...
- Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:56 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Tower Records: Rest in Peace
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14237
Today the sale discount is 15%. Lower next week. Please keep us posted on the discounts. The nearest Tower to me is in Rockville, about 45 minutes away by car. A sizable portion of my classical collection was bought when Planet Music went out of business in Baltimore and the discounts went to 25%, ...
- Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:45 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Tower Records: Rest in Peace
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14237
Music fans mourn loss of Tower Records By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 13, 3:33 PM ET The news that Tower Records is going the way of, well, records struck a dissonant note with customers as the news sunk in this week that the 46-year-old music retailer has been sold to a liquidat...
- Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:22 pm
- Forum: Classical Concert Reviews
- Topic: A Taut, Incisive Beethoven 9 with Haitink
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3351
The LSO Live recordings of Haitink's Beethoven cycle have been getting enthusiastic reviews. I think all but one of the symphonies has been released. I don't need another set but I'll probably get this one being a Haitink fan for many years. On the LSO website there is a quote from a newspaper revie...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:45 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: O alter Duft aus Maerchenzeit
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9741
The long-running comedy panel game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue hosted by musician Humphrey Lyttelton on BBC Radio frequently included a game called One Song to the Tune of Another which had the panelists sing the lyrics of one song to the melody of another. It was usually hilarious. I have tunes...
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:03 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Tower Records: Rest in Peace
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14237
The Song Remains the Blame http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/commentary06101014.htm By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick) 10/10/2006 I hate to rain on a eulogy, but why is everyone blaming this week's demise of Tower Records on the proliferation of digital downloading? Don't get me wron...
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:37 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The Pope's Divisions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1488
The Pope's Divisions
The Pope's Divisions Benedict XVI promotes "interfaith" dialogue. Muslims and Christians need it. BY REUEL MARC GERECHT Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:01 a.m. Although many Muslims have apparently found Pope Benedict XVI's recent oration at the University of Regensburg deeply offensive, it is a wel...
- Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:03 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Hezbollah cracked the code
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1421
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:30 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: This Should Pack Times Square
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3177
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:35 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Falling gas prices: why now?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8169
Oil prices drop as supply threats ease September 19, 2006 Oil prices fell Tuesday on the heels of a selloff in gasoline, as worries about supply threats eased and signs of economic weakness in the U.S. signaled a potential cooling of energy demand. Traders remained cautious about the West's diplomac...
- Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:15 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Music Suggestions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4045
Re: Music Suggestions
I was curious if you had any suggestions about any some music. I really like intense classical/orchestral/choral music. An example is Mozart's Requiem. Most of the music I find is calming and relaxing. I want the opposite. Does anyone have any suggestions of some music that I might like. very much ...
- Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:04 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: New Brilliant Classics
- Replies: 0
- Views: 952
New Brilliant Classics
Those busy folks at Brilliant Classics have updated their website with new releases which include: John Cage - 3 CD set of music for prepared piano Takemitsu - 2 CD set of orchestral music A revised and repackaged Complete Bach Edition (wallet boxes) and several more new recordings and re-releases. ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:39 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Sweden Unhappy with Its Social Model
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4482
Center-right alliance wins power in Sweden By Simon Johnson September 17, 2006 A Center-right alliance led by Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt won power in Sweden in an election on Sunday, ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule by vowing to lower taxes and trim the welfare state. Reinfeldt, ...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:17 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The Liberals' War
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2103
The Liberals' War
The Liberals' War Why is the left afraid to face up to the threat of radical Islam? BY BRET STEPHENS Sunday, September 17, 2006 12:01 a.m. "When I was 19, I moved to New York City. . . . If you had asked me to describe myself then, I would have told you I was a musician, an artist and, on a somewhat...
- Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:48 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Falling gas prices: why now?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8169
Factors That Pushed Oil Price Up Are Now Pushing It Down By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 16, 2006 No matter what theory oil analysts used to explain the spike in petroleum prices over the summer, this week those analysts were saying that those factors -- geopolitics...
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:16 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: A Pantheon for Monotheists
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1995
A Pantheon for Monotheists
Yesterday James Taranto cited a study on American images of God in his OpinionJournal.com column: A Baylor University study "found that Americans hold four different images of God," London's Times reports: Nearly a third of Americans, 31.4 per cent, believe in an Authoritarian God, angry at earthly...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:00 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Star Trek's 40th anniversary
- Replies: 37
- Views: 19486
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:31 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Is Claus Peter Flor "A Crazy Man?"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5348
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Arrangers of the Great American Songbook
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3150
Only some of Crosby's movie songs come close. Moonlight Becomes You is certainly one. I don't know the movie it's from, but the arrangement was so unfussy and natural, compared to the caricatures that some of Crosby's music could be. Moonlight Becomes You from "The Road to Morocco" was one of the s...
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:45 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Arrangers of the Great American Songbook
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3150
Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, Axel Stordahl The last arranged much of Sinatra's earlier work. I watched the 1947 film "It Happened in Brooklyn" the other day which has as its centerpiece the Styne/Cahn song "Time after Time." If there was ever a better performance of a great song in a movies I can't th...
- Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:34 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Muppets I Have Known and Loved
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5980
Re: Muppets I Have Known and Loved
Off topic a bit -- but you know the first thing I think of when someone mentions the muppets? When Rudolph Nureyev was a guest and they did "Swine Lake" with Miss Piggy in full regalia. Laughed myself sick. Rather than divert the songbook thread, I moved Madame's comment over here to kick off anoth...
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Is it Shishlov or Sishlov?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1873
- Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:04 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Who was the greater Liszt interpreter ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5483
Jakob & Bronislaw Gimpel Archives The Cat Concerto Controversy (Mystery Solved?) by Peter Gimpel Recently I have been receiving emails from diverse parts of the globe, inquiring about the recordings my father made for the cartoons. So far as I know, he made only two, "Rhapsody Rabbit" for Warner Bro...
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:09 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Who was the greater Liszt interpreter ...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5483
Who was the greater Liszt interpreter ...
Tom Cat? http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/img/concerto.jpg or Bugs Bunny? http://www.metu.edu.tr/~e118841/images/bugstux.gif Serendipitously, both artists, at their peaks of fame and prowess, were captured on film in 1946 performing Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody . The remarkably similar product...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 2843
- Views: 1030606
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:58 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The Joy of Comfort Food
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3047
Re: The Joy of Comfort Food
Shepherd's pie and beer.dulcinea wrote:What should I serve you when I have you over for dinner?
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:50 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Satellite Radio Favorites?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 820
Satellite Radio Favorites?
Satellite radio subscribers! What are your favorite programs or channels? I’m an XM subscriber. Several of my favorite programs are on the RealJazz channel: In The Swing Seat with Wynton Marsalis , Saturday 11 AM ET A gifted educator, Marsalis’s discussions and demonstrations about jazz are illumina...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:53 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Works of Bela Bartok
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7741
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:38 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Do you wear Braces?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 35885
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:16 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Can Bush dodge the bullet Truman took on Korea?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 921
Can Bush dodge the bullet Truman took on Korea?
Selling the War Can Bush dodge the bullet Truman took on Korea? BY DANIEL HENNINGER Friday, September 1, 2006 12:01 a.m. Some of us have worried for years that the Bush administration wasn't making a steady public case for the war in Iraq. And that at the least, the troops fighting the war deserved ...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:28 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: The Top Ten British Orchestras
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20801
If you’re going to have an orchestra league table there must be a system of relegation as an incentive to perform. After each season the bottom two orchestras should then be described as “second tier” and the two best from that lower level should be declared “first rank.” There should be a transfer ...
- Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:55 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Glenn Ford dead at 90
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2030
Turner Classic Movies will change its regularly scheduled programming on Sunday, September 10th to honor the late Glenn Ford (1916-2006) with a 6-film tribute. Here is the new lineup for 9/10: 8:00 AM The Desperadoes ('43) 9:30 AM A Stolen Life ('46) 11:30 AM Gilda ('46) 1:30 PM Blackboard Jungle ('...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:11 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Please help me clarify liner notes & identify performers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4393
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:56 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Are tap dancers musicians?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5204
Tap dancing seems to be a special case, however, as the taps enrich the music more than they do the choreography. So a tap dancer is partly a musician. Dancers who are real specialists in tap seem to place as much emphasis on the sounds they produce as the visual display of their movements - maybe ...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:43 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Colin Powell's Revenge
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8051
Fess Up, Mr. Armitage Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest. Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:01 a.m. From its very start, the ballyhooed case of who leaked the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak has been drenched in partisan politics and media hypocrisy. The more ...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:43 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Are tap dancers musicians?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5204
Are tap dancers musicians?
Pardon me for wasting forum space, but I was watching an Eleanor Powell movie from 1941 this evening and it occured to me that a performer like Powell or Bill Robinson was as much a percussionist as a dancer. The tap patterns are fascinating to hear even if you don't watch the dancing. Should we hon...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:50 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Casting Directors, the Buffoons of Show Biz
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7526
I've never seen The Sundowners , to be honest, so cannot comment. But I wonder how our thespians are doing re the accent thing. Russell, Heath, Nicole, Kate Blanchett, Toni Collette etc. (Mel doesn't count) Any stinkers amongst their vocal/accent talents? I don't see many new movies so I can't comm...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:22 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Casting Directors, the Buffoons of Show Biz
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7526
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:22 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Casting Directors, the Buffoons of Show Biz
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7526
After BATMAN's wimpish Adam West, the worst TV miscasting was having Dick York and Dick Sargent as the husband of Elizabeth Montgomery in BEWITCHED. No woman as beautiful and charming and accomplished as Samantha would have ever dreamed of marrying a geeky goon like Darren Stevens, who in both his ...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
- Replies: 1345
- Views: 1216924
"There is in the Southern Syncopated Orchestra an extraordinary clarinet virtuoso who is, so it seems, the first of his race to have composed perfectly formed blues on the clarinet. I've heard two of them which he elaborated at great length. They are admirable equally for their richness of invention...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:43 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Pierre Monteux: New 7-CD reissue from British Decca
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4201
Re: Pierre Monteux: New 7-CD reissue from British Decca
This was the first classical recording I bought for myself. It was a London "Treasury" LP re-release. I've loved Brahms and classical music ever since.Lance wrote:Brahms Symphony #2 in D, Op. 73, all w/VPO
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:40 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Corner Pub May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Powell's swearing-in oath
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2809
I don't understand the point you are trying to make. The criticism of him regarding the Plame case, if the report is true , is that he knew who leaked Plame's name to the press and kept quiet about it for years while innocent people were investigated and forced to pay hefty legal fees. He, or better...