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Title: THE NOT-TOO-TAXING RELAXING DAY
Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 12:23:07 AM: Well, you've read the notes, which were hopefully not too taxing, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're relaxing right now because coming home is too taxing at this time.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 12:23:31 AM: And the word of the day is: SOSTENUTO!
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 01:09:39 AM: I see no evidence of a birthday on our home page or on our calendar. I can't do partays if I don't know what's going on.

If it is indeed dear reader Jason's birthdya, then let us all send him a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer. On the count of three: One, two three - A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER FOR DEAR READER JASON IF IT'S REALLY HIS BIRTHDAY AND IF IT IS REALLY HIS BIRTHDAY THEN WHY ISN'T IT ON THE OFFICIAL HAINESHISWAY.COM CALENDAR?
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:55:07 AM: I blame Jose.. Jasons' birthday is next Saturday!!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 01:55:20 AM: I think Jason's birthday is next weekend. But if it means cake.......
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 01:56:34 AM: The thing I hate most about insomnia is the lack of sleep.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 04:52:39 AM: I get bored very easily with insomnia and I usually fall asleep.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 04:56:58 AM: About well known actors doing commercials a topic from yesterday.

I have no problem with actors doing commercials afterall it is a job and it help pays the bills.

BUT sometimes I wonder about their choice(s) in commercial work. Is this the only product that they have been asked to shill?
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 04:58:20 AM: Good morning Larry.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 04:59:51 AM: Bruce in his makeup as young Mr. Whipple.

(http://images.usatoday.com/life/gallery/mascots/03-11-whipple.jpg)

BTW there were 504 ads from 1965 to 1989 putting Dick Wilson in the Guiness Book of Records for having the longest running (LIVE) character for TV commercials played by one actor.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 05:51:12 AM: Quote from: Michael S on November 13, 2005, 04:58:20 AM
Good morning Larry.

Good morning, Michael! And good morning, all! I have to work on an arrangement for Elaine Stritch and the New York City Gay Men's Chorus this morning before I make another go at the Mario Frangoulis charts.

DRGeorge, I love your new avatar. Thank you. I thought your Carmen Miranda was a great Halloween avatar, but looking at it constantly, I couldn't take anything you wrote seriously. However, I'm curious: do you have photos of yourself in other performances?

It's been my observation that commercials are a nice income for actors if they can land a good national one. I'm not sure if they particularly care what the work is if they're paid well for it. Jason Graae's Western Union voiceover "Everybody needs some money some time" brought him several years of good income. I used to call Rebecca the Tylenol Queen for her commercial, and I'm happy to see my friends are employed.

Ron Raines was paid a good sum to make a commercial in Japan, in which he sang quite nicely, but was it worthy of him? I loved Alice Playten's Alka Seltzer commercials but was it worthy of her? If I were John Lithgow, I'd be embarassed by the pitchy singing, and tacky design, writing and staging of the spot. Encores! THE APPLE TREE might have been worthy of Ms Chenowith's talents, but I'm sure OldNavy made her agent a deal her agent couldn't resist.

TOD: I've always preferred vocal over instrumental, so a lot of my favorite pieces are vocal, but let's see what stacks up. I know I'll miss something I love:
SYMPHONIC:
Respighi: Botticelli Pictures, Ancient airs & Dances, The Birds
Ravel: Piani concerti, Valses Nobles et sentimentales
Dvorak: cello concerto, Symphony No. 8
Smetena: Ma Vlast
Tchaikovsky: The Three Big Ballets
Elgar: cello concerto, Enigma Variations, Cockaigne Overture
Copland: Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo
Handel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Saint-Saens: organ concerto, the tone poems
Stravinsky: the ballets
Bernstein: Fancy Free, Divertimento
Gershwin: Piano concerto in F
SYMPHPONIC VOCAL:
Ravel: Scheherazade
Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Les Nuits d'Ete
Dvorak: The Specter's Bride, Stabat Mater
Copland: Old American Songs
Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade for Tenor Horn & Strings, Spring Symphony
Handel: Messiah
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Bernstein: Songbook
Mozart: Requiem, Masses
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Poulenc: Gloria
CHAMBER:
Bach: Brandenburg Concerti
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for Harp, etc.
Borodin: String Quartets
A lot of Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak
OPERA:
Britten: Peter Grimes, Albert Herring, The Beggar's Opera, Midsummer Night's Dream
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro
Bizet: Carmen
Beethoven: Fidelio
Verdi: Falstaff, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann
Menotti: The Telephone, The Medium, Amahl and the Night Visitors
Puccini: Turandot, La Boheme, Il Trittico, Tosca
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Dvorak: Rusalka
Smetena: The Bartered Bride
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress, Oedipus
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Rossini: The Barber of Seville
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Pique Dame
Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges
Saint-Saens: Samson and Delila

And that's enough!
Title: Re:THE NOT-TOO-TAXING RELAXING DAY
Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 05:54:24 AM: How could I have forgotten Schubert's Trout Quintet, one of my favorites?
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Post by: FJL on November 13, 2005, 06:10:30 AM: Elmore - Trout Quintet? Is that a "What is it, fish?" reference? Or is that your joke to begin with? :)
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 06:27:36 AM: Quote from: FJL on November 13, 2005, 06:10:30 AM
Elmore - Trout Quintet? Is that a "What is it, fish?" reference? Or is that your joke to begin with? :)
DRFJL, Schubert's "Trout Quintet" is called so because the theme and variations movement, which was the original title music for the Tim Daly series WINGS, is based on a song by Schubert, "die Forelle" or The Trout. What is it, fish? Yep!
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 06:29:47 AM: How could I have forgotten Kurt Weill's two great operas, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Street Scene, Berg's Wozzeck, and Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper?

Or, in symphonic, Kodaly's Hary Janos? Duh!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 06:31:07 AM: Wonderful choices, DRELMORE!

I will only add a vote for Copland's Rodeo and Billy the Kid.

I also enjoy Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

As for obscure....Edward MacDowell is an interesting early 20th Century composer who did some very nice piano work.

http://jhiller.bol.ucla.edu/macdowell.html
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 06:31:52 AM: Of course to look at - he's no Mario Frangoulis (or even John Barrowman) - but then again - who is?
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Post by: td on November 13, 2005, 06:36:23 AM: It may not be officially DR Jason's b.d., but, I am baking cake today! Friday was my dear friend Roseanna's b.d., so I'm cooking her an enormous dinner, which we shall dine upon around 7:30 tonight. (Triple Chocolate Fudge cake, btw. Oh! and Bountiful Beer Bread must be baked as well).
In the SIX DEGREES department - KISS KISS BANG BANG was written and directed by Shane Black, correct? Well, Pat Black, Shane's mother and my mother graduated high school together! I see Ms. Black often as I am the official chronicler, secretary and wordsmith for the West Deer Class of 1952.

I like Marc Blitzstein's REGINA.
I also like Robert Wilson's/Philip Glass' EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH.
I think it was Adams who wrote NIXON IN CHINA, or whatever that thing is called.

Is Eduoard Lalo 20th century? I'm very fond of his music.
(Has anyone else heard Vadim Repin play the Spanish Symphony?)
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Post by: td on November 13, 2005, 06:37:10 AM: I'm waiting patiently for Mario to come to my house. ;)
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Post by: TPunk on November 13, 2005, 06:38:23 AM: Good morning all. As Rodzinski posted yesterday, we both really enjoyed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I can't remember the last time I laughed out loud that much during a movie. Two thumbs up and highly recommended.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 06:45:40 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on November 13, 2005, 06:31:07 AM
Wonderful choices, DRELMORE!

I also enjoy Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

As for obscure....Edward MacDowell is an interesting early 20th Century composer who did some very nice piano work.

Thank you, DRJRand55! How goes your Frangoulis listening? I just got yesterday his "Follow Your Heart" CD, which I will play today.

Edward MacDowell is the subject of a wonderful novel by Doris Grumbach, CHAMBER MUSIC, which I highly recommend.

I cannot believe I forgot Carmina Burana! When I first knew the piece it was still rather obscure, but now its "O Fortuna" is used in every other movie commercial where the music is not set. Still, Orff's composition is quite a thrilling visceral experience.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:16:00 AM: Good Morning!

Well... Time for me to get into my motor car and head up to NYC. And it looks like a very nice day for a drive. Hopefully, the traffic will be nice too.

And I shall call the requisite parties once I'm back up in the city to see if anyone would like to sup this evening.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:20:43 AM: As for the topic of the day.... What immediately comes to mind are:

Debussy: Most of the piano works, especially the "Preludes" and "Etudes" (Mitsuko Uchida's recording on Philips of the Etudes is simply delicious!)
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas - I'm partial to the middle period ones. Some of those late ones can get just a bit too cerebral for me at times.
Ravel: The piano works, especially the "Miroirs" suite.
Barber: The vocal works - the songs. And it's been mentioned many a time, but "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" has to be one of the most perfect pieces of music. Simply beautiful.

And that's all I have time for now...
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:21:48 AM: ...And the theme for "Wings" eventually went on to become based on a theme from Schubert's Piano Sonata in G (or was it B-Flat?).
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:22:08 AM: OK - Time to drive...

Laters...
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 07:27:58 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 06:45:40 AM
Thank you, DRJRand55! How goes your Frangoulis listening? I just got yesterday his "Follow Your Heart" CD, which I will play today.

Edward MacDowell is the subject of a wonderful novel by Doris Grumbach, CHAMBER MUSIC, which I highly recommend.

Very well, thank you. I am thinking that I shall also purchase Follow Your Heart. Sometimes I Dream is a very NICE CD! Mine is enhanced so it has the video for Vincero, Perdero which I haven't watched yet.

And thanks for the name of the novel. Interesting! ;D

Now off to the World of Wisdom. And I hope people planning to come to the store today do not all wait and come in the last half hour!! :P
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 07:29:37 AM: I like that comedienne Judy Sostenuto - especially when she plays her accordion.

DR td - Mario will be at my house for a LONG time, I will let you know when he is released!
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 07:30:16 AM: Good morning! We do have a birthday today in the extended HHW family - my DH Richard's. Our son is home this weekend, so we will all have a lovely birthday dinner at The Montgomery Inn (http://www.montgomeryinn.com), after which DH will take DS back to UC before joining his Cincinnati shape-note group for their November sing.
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 07:36:11 AM: TOD - Most of my favorites have already been listed. I also like Mouret's Rondeau (aka Theme from Masterpiece Theatre), which was the processional for our wedding.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 07:46:50 AM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:20:43 AM
And it's been mentioned many a time, but "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" has to be one of the most perfect pieces of music. Simply beautiful.

HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ONE? "One is my mother who is good to me" always makes me cry, Barber's setting is so wonderful.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:11:10 AM: Good morning!

We started out with very overcast skies and the chance of rain, but all that has cleared now and once again we have blue skies and moderate temperatures.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:11:56 AM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Page 2 Dance!!![/move]
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:14:21 AM: Commercials ARE a great way for working actors to pay bills between gigs. And sheer heaven would be finding a commercial (as Ann Miller did with the Great American Soups ad) that showcased her talent as well as providing income.

Alas, I guess those are few and far between.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:16:52 AM: I have some DVD dubs to make today for folks as well as enjoying some DVDs and other video entertainment.

And TCM is showing THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN this afternoon so I can finally burn myself a DVD of it.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:59:01 AM: Off to prepare some lunch now and then get down to some serious videoing.

WBBL.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 09:02:06 AM: Quote from: bk on November 13, 2005, 12:23:31 AM
And the word of the day is: SOSTENUTO!
A sostenuto birthday cheer for Jason!
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 09:24:55 AM: Our CD collection is such a mess right now that I've no chance of referring to it to identify my classic faves.

Has anyone out there heard of Alan Hovhaness? His Symphony #50: Mount Saint Helens is quite beautiful, and startling.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 09:46:54 AM: Quote from: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 09:24:55 AM
Our CD collection is such a mess right now that I've no chance of referring to it to identify my classic faves.

Has anyone out there heard of Alan Hovhaness? His Symphony #50: Mount Saint Helens is quite beautiful, and startling.

DRSWW, I've read several things about Hovhaness but I don't believe I've ever hear a note he's written! The same is true of Roger Sessions.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 10:18:20 AM: Time to get to work. (But Sundays pays extra!)

Hello, George! Hello, Professor William F!

Goodbye, George! Goodbye, Professor William F!
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 10:25:10 AM: Happy Birthday to DR Ginny's DH Richard!! ;D
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 10:26:06 AM: Hello Woody!
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 10:28:11 AM: Quote from: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 05:51:12 AM
DRGeorge, I love your new avatar. Thank you. I thought your Carmen Miranda was a great Halloween avatar, but looking at it constantly, I couldn't take anything you wrote seriously. However, I'm curious: do you have photos of yourself in other performances?

Not many, but I have some. The problem is that they're buried in boxes somewhere, but now that my housemate has totally moved out and cleaned his room, I can use that to get stuff out of my bedroom and extra bedroom and (hopefully) start to go through it all...at least, that's the plan. ::)
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 10:29:57 AM: I'm up, I'm up - finally had a great night's sleep, albeit with some might peculiar dreaming.

I like everything I've heard by Hovhaness and I've heard a lot. How could I forget to mention Gershwin and Bernstein. For the former, I love Concerto in F, for the latter I love The Age of Anxiety and the Jeremiah Symphony.
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 10:31:14 AM: My birthday is, indeed, one week from yesterday. Sorry for the corn-fusion, BK. But thank you for the early wishes. :)

I absolutely must do my laundry today if I expect to have any underwear for tomorrow. I'll be back...
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 10:36:19 AM: Favorite classical pieces (most, but not all, have been mentioned):

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 "The Choral Symphony"
Bernstein: Fancy Free
Bizet: Carmen
Britten: Turn of the Screw (I saw this at the Vancouver Opera and it was one of the most incredible opera productions that I had experienced)
Copland: Rodeo
Gershwin: Piano concerto in F, Porgy and Bess
Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten, Satyagraha (Satyagraha is my favorite of the three)
Orff: Carmina Burana (when I was at Western Washington University, we performed this with all the choirs and orchestras of Western, as well as with the Whatcom Choral Society and the local community orchestra. Heidi Grant Murphy had just graduated from Western the year before and came back to sing the soprano part. It was incredible!)
Ravel: Bolero
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd ;)
Domenico Scarlatti: Sacred Choral Works (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RYE5/qid=1131906857/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-6738108-7460936?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846) (I'm on this CD!!)
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 10:44:51 AM: You can't read it on the picture on Amazon.com, but this was performed by the Western Washington University Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Robert Scandrett. I was in the choir and we recorded this CD over a weekend in May of 1989 at Western's concert hall. It was quite the experience!

Click HERE (http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=2322624&cart=284640256&style=classical) for the cduniverse.com listing. It has a lot more information. :)
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 10:46:48 AM: All right, I must buckle down Winsocki and start watching DVD footage. I forgot I have a little partay at four - won't be able to stay very long, but I must go.
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Post by: elmore3003 on November 13, 2005, 10:59:59 AM: Quote from: George on November 13, 2005, 10:36:19 AM

Sondheim: Sweeney Todd ;)

Actually, DRGeorge, I think SWEENEY TODD is the best american opera written in the past 40 years. I cannot stand Phillip Glass, however; his music, and Steve Reich's, makes me quite jittery and irritated.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 12:10:58 PM: TOTD:
Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 9th
Shubert's 8th
Rachmaninoff's Concerto #2
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 12:27:41 PM: Excuse me, but while I'm going through the sheer torture of viewing footage, what in tarnation IS going on here - no one in the jernt at 12:30 - 48 posts at 12:30, two posts in ninety minutes? This will NOT do, I'm afraid. Some people I could name better be getting off their butt cheeks or there will be hell toupee.
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Post by: TCB on November 13, 2005, 12:34:13 PM: Well, I hate to read and run, but I have to be at the Murder Mystery Dinner in about twenty minutes. This is the final performance of that epic, MURDER AT KTMP. Its passing will not be mourned for long, or by many.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 12:48:25 PM: I'm also fond of:

Classical Gas
I Hear a Symphony
Lover's Concerto
Bohemian Rhapsody
Song Of Joy
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 12:53:21 PM: Borodin's "Prince Igor: has also been a favourite. I suspect it is a favourite of DR WFO as well.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 12:55:49 PM: We survived the train-wreck-of-a-weekend.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 12:59:54 PM: I've always enjoyed the "pop" take on classics.
I guess Conniff's "Concert In Rhythm" introduced me to a few Classical themes.

I play the Waldo De Los Rios "Classics" quite often and also have a James Last collection of similar themes.

I even have the Cd of "B Bumble & the Stingers" rocking up the classics, and of course the "Kokomo" collection.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:01:37 PM: Congratulations DearReader Laura. I hope the Elephants were not injured. (A "Greatest Show On Earth" reference of sorts).
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:03:23 PM: DP Colin's favourite is still "Sparky and his Magic Piano"

"Jose and his Magic Piano" is also very popular.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:05:37 PM: I'm doing my best here!!

It's all Grieg to me.
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Post by: Ann on November 13, 2005, 01:10:15 PM: my my, what a slow news day around here
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:11:13 PM: Good Afternoon!

Greetings from New York City!

It was a perfect day for a drive - cool weather, clear skies, and there was still some nice fall foliage to look at along the way. There was a very brief spot of traffic, but, again, it was very brief. The only "weirdness" was when I went to fill up my tank at one of the service stations along the turnpike. Since they are refurbishing a couple of the gas stations, the turnpike is now three gas stations "short". So, this means that the remaining stations are getting a bit more business than usual. Thankfully, all the pumps were manned and opened. *And at least the New Jersey Turnpike authority put lots of warning signs up along the way: "No Fuel Service Between Exits 4 and 8" - or something like that.

...But I'm here.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:11:42 PM: Well... And now Page 3!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:13:14 PM: DR DearReaderLaura - Maybe I missed it... But what was it that had the potential to make this weekend a "train-wreck weekend"? -If you care to share.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:13:36 PM: Welcome "Back" DR Jose.
So why aren't you married yet?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:44:33 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 01:13:36 PM
Welcome "Back" DR Jose.
So why aren't you married yet?

A) Because I haven't found the right man yet.
(I credit that response to DR elmore.)
and

B) I'm not living in Canada.

;D
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:56:00 PM: ...And I do have to say that there were some tears shed when I said Goodbye to my aunt this morning. I hope she has/had a good flight back to Los Angeles this morning. -And I hope she and my parents managed to fit all the "stuff" into her luggage. Clothes, souvenirs, pictures, small appliances (a new hand blender (an Oster 6-speed, with retractable cord) a.k.a. my present to her), and... drumroll please... About two dozens cooked crabs packed in a stryofoam cooler with some dry ice - don't ask. -Since I don't have the answer.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 01:57:51 PM: On the TOD:

Debussy has been my favorite classical composer for a long time now and "Reverie" and "Clair de Lune" are my two favorites by him.

But I like lots of classical music and can listen to just about any of it and find pleasure.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:02:11 PM: On the subject of opera, I know only a limited amount. I've only seen four classic operas "in the flesh," and of those, Bizet's CARMEN has always been my favorite.

In interviews I've read, Sondheim himself has resisted the label of opera for SWEENEY TODD, but it certainly has been done in opera houses all over the world. If it's not an opera, then I guess my favorite "Broadway opera" would be PORGY AND BESS. I am quick to say, however, that I've never heard REGINA or any of the Minotti operas that played Broadway.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 02:02:28 PM: And I thought many a DR would appreciate this picture:

(http://www.playbill.com/images/photos/sounddvdoc2.jpg)

Standing: Charmian Carr (left), Debbie Turner and Kym Karath; Sitting: Nicholas Hammond (left), Heather Menzies, Julie Andrews, Angela Cartwright and Duane Chase

PHOTO CALL: The Hills Are Still Alive After 40 Years with Release of Anniversary “Sound of Music” DVD (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/96233.html)
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 02:03:35 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:44:33 PM
A) Because I haven't found the right man yet.
(I credit that response to DR elmore.)
and

B) I'm not living in Canada.

;D

Or Massachusetts! ;)

I have to leave (after just popping in) to usher for SOGO (http://www.studentorchestras.org/), which stands for "Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia." It should be quite interesting...but since I'm not really interested in orchestral or instrumental music, I won't find it interesting. But a lot of people do, and that's okay, too! :D
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:03:42 PM: I finished up THE WIZARD OF OZ while I was preparing lunch and eating it. Always wonderful and "gets me" every time.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:05:51 PM: Thanks for that picture, DR Jose. Of the children, the one I can most easily recognize without the labels is Duane Chase! Glad to see Nicholas Hammond attended this gathering. Often, he's one of the ones who's absent from these affairs.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:08:46 PM: After doing some DVD dubs for some folks, I settled in making a DVD dub for myself, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN. There was some speckling on the print TCM used for broadcast, but the DVD will be more than acceptable until a commercial one comes along. Heck, it might be the same master used for the commercial DVD!

I can imagine snooty film critics of the period looking down on this film, but it's a wonderful adventure and very moving, too.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:11:32 PM: With that Saturday Night Live 80s special coming on tonight, I have fewer things to watch tonight than usual, so I'll be able to see DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES "live" and then in the 10 o'clock hour watch the HBO-HD broadcast of ROME that I will have recorded during HOUSEWIVES.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:15:32 PM: DR td:

Clean out your inbox please! I tried to send you a response and your inbox is full!
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 02:34:14 PM: Thank you DR Jose for SoM pic. I've saved it for DR François.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 02:48:19 PM: I am just about footaged out - what a way to waste a Sunday - and it's HARD to choose clips - they have to be short and sweet and so one must search through each DVD for those moments. And then there's the problem of the fact that I don't seem to have certain DVDs that I thought I did, like American Graffitti and From Here To Eternity, and The In-Laws. So, tomorrow I'm going to have to go find those, along with a few others that I would never buy if it weren't for this clip reel.
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 13, 2005, 02:50:39 PM: Well, I started with putting on the 3 storm windows I needed to put on. I washed them before they went up, of course, so you know what that means....all the rest of the windows looked dirty. It's a nice day, so I washed all the windows.

I didn't get hat done before winter last year and was very sorry all winter that I hadn't. I had one neighbor stop to tell me what I was doing was futile, that there would be streaks and they would just get dirty again. That's a pretty dismal way to look at things....

I managed to break a cheap bookcase while trying to get a window off
that has been painted shut for who knows how long but I was bound and determined to get it clean. It's clean and now I need a new book case....
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 13, 2005, 02:52:09 PM: I also made a wonderful chicken piccata for lunch. I've been hungry for it for days and this was the first time I had time to really do it right. It was yummy and I have enough left over for a delightful dinner
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Post by: Cillaliz on November 13, 2005, 02:53:01 PM: Now I get to do motions in limine and jury instructions for an upcoming trial. Oh what fun
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 02:54:50 PM: Evening all!

The 2nd dog house was a big hit! I looked out this morning and Brandi was sleeping away on her new memory foam pad in her new house.

I had a very good sleep last night with many dreams. One of them was about all of us being at a house that I used to live in when I was younger. Some kind of party/gathering. Here was the kicker. It wasn't MY house-- for some reason it belonged to none other then BK! Now BK, why did you buy my old house? :)
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 02:55:02 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:16:52 AM
I have some DVD dubs to make today for folks as well as enjoying some DVDs and other video entertainment.

What language are you dubbing them into?
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:59:03 PM: Going to head down and clean my bathroom now and then back to TV.

WBBL.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 03:00:00 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:05:51 PM
Thanks for that picture, DR Jose. Of the children, the one I can most easily recognize without the labels is Duane Chase! Glad to see Nicholas Hammond attended this gathering. Often, he's one of the ones who's absent from these affairs.

Doesn't Nicholas Hammond live in Australia? It a schlep to come to these things. But 40 years is something.

Saw them on Good Morning America last Friday. I thought they would have at least mentioned Robert Wise.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 03:01:28 PM: Well folks since Italy is out this year I have decided to spend some time in the usa. I will probably go to NYC and LA or LA and NYC. I haven't decided yet.
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:02:14 PM: I have been very bad.

I haven't asked how DR VixDad is. I do hope that all is going well for him.

And I meant to ask DR François to be careful and stay safe with all the riots that are going on in his country.

Happy Birthday to DR Ginnys DH!

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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 03:04:07 PM: Movie Watch:

I tried to watch Night Visitor this weekend. Didn't make it through the whole film. But did fast forward to BK's one and only scene, It was shot in a long shot and BK was mostly in profile. The suit he wore wasn't bad looking.
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Post by: MBarnum on November 13, 2005, 03:06:53 PM: Gershwin: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and RHAPSODY IN BLUE.

Also really like Grofe's GRAND CANYON SUITE, and Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE and THE NUTCRACKER.

Those would be my favorites...the last 3 have been favorites since I was a toddler.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 03:08:10 PM: Anyone planing to get the Harold Lloyd 7 disc box set? I see it is coming out on Tuesday.

Here is what on it:

Volume 1
Disc 1:
· Feature films and shorts - Girl Shy (1924), Safety Last! (1923), An Eastern Westerner (1920), Ask Father (1919), From Hand to Mouth (1919)
· Commentary by Leonard Maltin director and Rich Correll on Safety Last!
· Production and publicity galleries
· Animated menus
· 4X3 full frame versions
· 2M mono audio

Disc 2:
· Feature films and shorts - The Milky Way (1936), The Cat’s Paw (1934), Why Worry? (1923)
· Featurette “Harold’s Hollywood: Then and Now”
· Production and publicity galleries
· English subtitles and closed captions
· Animated menus
· 4X3 full frame versions
· Spanish subtitles – on feature films
· 2M mono audio

Volume 2
Disc 1:
· Feature films and shorts - Kid Brother (1927), The Freshman (1925), Bumping Into Broadway (1919), Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
· Commentary by Leonard Maltin, Rich Correll and film historian Richard Bann on The Freshman
· Commentary by Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd, author Annette Lloyd, and Rich Correll on Kid Brother
· Production and publicity galleries
· Animated menus
· 4X3 full frame versions
· 2M mono audio

Disc 2:
· Feature films and shorts - Feet First (1930), Grandma’s Boy (1922), Dr. Jack (1922), Now or Never (1921), High and Dizzy (1920)
· “Scoring for Comedy” Featurette
· Production and publicity galleries
· English subtitles and closed captions
· Spanish subtitles
· Animated menus
· 4X3 full frame versions
· 2M mono audio

Volume 3
Disc 1:
· Feature films and shorts - Speedy (1928), Hot Water (1924), Never Weaken (1921), Haunted Spooks (1920),
· Commentary by Suzanne Lloyd, Annette Lloyd and Rich Correll on Speedy and Haunted Spooks
· Production and publicity galleries
· Animated menus
· 4X3 full frame versions
· 2M mono audio

Disc 2:
· Feature films and shorts - Movie Crazy (1932), For Heaven’s Sake (1926), I Do (1921), Among Those Present (1921), A Sailor-Made Man (1921), Get Out and Get Under (1920), Number Please? (1920)
· “Greenacres” Featurette
· Productions and publicity galleries
· English subtitles and closed captions
· Spanish subtitles
· 4X3 full frame versions

Bonus Disc (Collector’s Set Only)
· Rare home movies
· Introductions from film critic and historian Leonard Maltin
· Photo galleries, lobby cards and production stills
· Comparisons between domestic and international prints
· “Then-and-now” location comparisons
· Tributes and interviews with family, friends and legendary celebrities including Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Tab Hunter and director John Landis
· Rogues’ gallery of autographed photos of celebrities, presidents and sports heroes
· Scrapbook collection - Reviews, programs, etc.
· 3-D photos (3-D glasses included)
· Over 30 featurettes
· And more!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 03:13:39 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on November 13, 2005, 03:06:53 PM
Gershwin: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and RHAPSODY IN BLUE.

Also really like Grofe's GRAND CANYON SUITE, and Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE and THE NUTCRACKER.

Those would be my favorites...the last 3 have been favorites since I was a toddler.

Did you also watch that "film" of "Grand Canyon Suite" when you were in school? I remember watching it yearly when I was in grade school.
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Post by: Joy on November 13, 2005, 03:18:06 PM: Whew... just caught up on posts, as yesterday was a day of doing various errands and consoling (a.k.a. drinking with) a friend who just got fired from a show. DH Noel and I have spend the day watching "Lost", which we got from NetFlix yesterday. We are officially junkies: We have already watched the first SEVEN episodes and are about to watch number 8 (Confidence Man), and who knows how long we'll be able to make it until the next fix. This show was certainly NOT what I expected, in a good way! I love how they didn't start with the plane crash and show you the whole thing right away, but instead give you little bites at a time. I almost fell off the couch at the end of the "Walkabout" episode. Wow, that was brilliant!

Well, if DH Noel will get off the phone, we can start the next exciting installment of "Lost"!

Of course, I don't know what we'll do when we've watched all of this season and it's too late to catch up with the current season... shudder... but I can't think about that right now. I must get my fix!
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Post by: Joy on November 13, 2005, 03:19:50 PM: DR Jose, I would have loved to join the NYC sup tonight if I was not currently a slave to my DVD player. Next time!
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Post by: Joy on November 13, 2005, 03:21:35 PM: PAGE 4 DANCE!!!

(http://www.cult.tv/images/Lost1.jpg)
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:35:06 PM: Quote from: Jason on November 13, 2005, 10:31:14 AM
My birthday is, indeed, one week from yesterday. Sorry for the corn-fusion, BK. But thank you for the early wishes. :)

I absolutely must do my laundry today if I expect to have any underwear for tomorrow. I'll be back...

I remember when "Don't get Corn fused" was an ad slogan. I think for Corn Flakes if memory serves.

Also from the posts I'm trying to get caught up on, we had several family sayings. One I can't post with this being a family site (but I will tell you if you really want to know via email or PM ). Anyway we were waiting for a bed to be delivered but it was late. My Mom called to ask the sales guy where it was. He told her, "Patience, my Love. Patience." That cracked us up and we still tell that to one another when the other is in a hurry to get someplace.
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:37:13 PM: Well, DR Joy. My "buy button" finger added "Lost" to my list when I went on that DVD shopping spree the other night.

I want my Mom to get caught up with the show. We didn't have Tivo until this past summer so it was on to late for her. She likes it but having missed so much, things don't make sense to her.
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Post by: JMK on November 13, 2005, 03:37:40 PM: I was very privileged to be hand-picked to be part of a small Master Class taught by Roy Harris. It was rather amazing for me because I was a sophomore and most of the people in the class were graduate students, but my Theory teacher thought very highly of me and had heard some of my nascent piano pieces, so he got me in. Roy was rather old, but he talked a lot about modes and his Third Symphony and his wife (Katherine? am I remembering that correctly?) wowed us with her piano playing. Roy would call out a composer and piece and Katherine would just lay into it, no holds barred. It was a great experience. I still remember him comparing various modes to different colors, acid-head that he must have been. ;D

So many wonderful composers, so little time--these just off the top of my head:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: pretty much anything, but especially the 4th symphony
Prokofiev: pretty much anything, but especially the 5th symphony (most especially as conducted by Ormandy)
Faure: Requiem
Durufle: Requiem (oy, I'm getting depressed)
Ravel: Mother Goose, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Brahms: any/all, but the 4th conducted by Walter can not be topped. The recent reconstructions of the original, smaller symphony orchestrations are very interesting, if not quite as grandiose as the ones we're all used to hearing

For those who like Copland/Harris, I highly recommend former University of Utah Composer in Residence Ned Rorem, who has written some great chamber music, notably his Water Music.

And just to be a little outre, I think Frank Zappa's orchestral/chamber stuff is the equal of Varese's (Edgard that is, not Sarabande ;) ).
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:39:58 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 12:55:49 PM
We survived the train-wreck-of-a-weekend.

I'm glad for that, DearReaderLaura!

DR George, I like the new picture. :)
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Post by: JMK on November 13, 2005, 03:42:44 PM: Also in the Early Music category:

Hildegard von Bingen (or Von Bingy-Wingy as we refer to her 'round these parts). I even like the trance/dance re-do's of her stuff by former University of Utah dude Richard Souther (what are all these plugs for the U of U--you'd think I went there or something). ;)

Sequentia, featuring (yep, you guessed) former U of U player Dana Maiben, whose brother William taught composition at the University of Washington and is a great undiscovered genius (he's also a little crazy--mostly in a good way--which may have something to do with it). ;)

Pan, who do some interesting recreations of early theater pieces, a la the Feast of Fools.

OK, that's enough for now. I should go look at my CD cases, that will really get me started on a frenzy. ;D
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:45:42 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:03:42 PM
I finished up THE WIZARD OF OZ while I was preparing lunch and eating it. Always wonderful and "gets me" every time.

I can make it all the way up to the point where she says "And I think I'll miss you most of all." to the Scarecrow. Then I burst into tears and stay that way until "And Oh, Auntie Em, There's no place like HOME!". My Dad used to tease me about that. When "Oz" came on once a year he called it my "annual cry". :D
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Post by: td on November 13, 2005, 03:54:48 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 02:15:32 PM
DR td:

Clean out your inbox please! I tried to send you a response and your inbox is full!

Not anymore. ;D
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 03:59:09 PM: Three hours it took me to do my laundry. I'm not happy about it. More later.
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 04:08:51 PM: More laundry or more posting?? ??? ;) :D
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Post by: JMK on November 13, 2005, 04:10:45 PM: A very nice pairing would be Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Steve Reich's Tehillim. They are both incredibly lovely and lyrical. I believe I have shared my anecdote about the opening major seventh voicing of Chichester causing an epileptic woman to have a Grand Mal seizure at a concert I attended. It was a moment.
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 04:13:13 PM: Back from our lovely Montgomery Inn dinner to celebrate DH Richard's birthday (thanks for the wishes, all). I stopped at Half-Price Books and this is what I bought:

Books: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and a Quality Paperback Book Club edition of 3 Dawn Powell novels

CDs: The Sondheim Songbook, Broadway's Fair Ladies, and Wynton Marsalis' In Gabriel's Garden

Then I got tangled up in road closures and detours out in rural Butler County, but made it home safely.
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 04:32:42 PM: I love the Chicester Psalms. I did a report on them in undergrad school.

I got some farily exciting news from a woman at work who's looking out for my acting career. She arranged the tickets for me for Lea Salonga's concert through the director, Richard Jay Alexander. He's the director who has basically put people into LES MISERABLES for the last twenty years. Anyway, she told me she'd be happy to set up an audition with him if I heard of any auditions for the show. And we just recently heard that LES MIZ is most likely going out on a non-Eq. tour next year... :D Keep your fingers crossed...
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 04:40:58 PM: DR Jose: When do you go back to DC? Tomorrow night or Tuesday morning?
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Post by: MBarnum on November 13, 2005, 04:45:27 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 03:13:39 PM
Did you also watch that "film" of "Grand Canyon Suite" when you were in school? I remember watching it yearly when I was in grade school.

Yep. 1st grade. I remember it vividly!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 04:47:22 PM: DR Jason - That's cool!

Just remember, the proper "layout" of his name is "Richard Jay-Alexander". -Notice the hyphen. He was in many an audition room when I would play for friends who were auditioning for Les Miserables.

We actually saw him the night we saw Suzanne Somers debacle. He was sitting down the row from us in the center of the mezzanine, and he happened to be talking with Elinore O'Connell outside on the sidewalk after the show. -She was in shock after the show. -And she was also the Fantine in the L.A. company of Les Miserables. -And she was in my cast of Side By Side By Sondheim about 15 years ago. -Yikes! It has been that long! WOW!

-And when I saw him there, I was wondering if he was being brought in as a possible show doctor. Remember, Jerry Mitchell was there that night too. -Now wouldn't that have been interesting?

::)
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 04:48:47 PM: Quote from: Jason on November 13, 2005, 04:40:58 PM
DR Jose: When do you go back to DC? Tomorrow night or Tuesday morning?

Right now, I think I'm heading back tomorrow night around 8:00. but I may head back later... or I may just hold off until early Tuesday morning. *I'll check the rehearsal hotline in a few to see if I have any leeway.

Anything in the works?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 04:49:42 PM: We could always have dinner tomorrow after I'm done at Ripley-Grier and you're done at MTI for the day.

Anyone else care to join us?
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 04:52:06 PM: ...And as for tonight's dinner plans.. Well, we placed our order with Ollie's about an hour ago at this point, so... Their delivery times are either very fast - surprisingly fast - or inexplicably long. Ah, well...

It's been fun hanging out with my roomies this afternoon/evening. It will be nice to be back here full time come February.
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 04:54:41 PM: Good luck, DR Jason!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 04:55:27 PM: Ah... Dinner is delivered!

Laters...
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 05:26:34 PM: Does anyone know if LA's YMCA have "hotel" rooms like they do in NYC?
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Post by: Jane on November 13, 2005, 05:26:40 PM: George you are looking good.

I finally saw a John Lithgow Campbell’s Soup commercial and found it very forgettable. Elmore maybe Lithgow thinks the commercials are funny.
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Post by: Jane on November 13, 2005, 05:29:13 PM: Happy Birthday to Ginny’s DH Richard.
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:31:49 PM: Happy Birthday to DR GINNY'S DH - my Mamma Mia seatmate!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:32:15 PM: Congrats on the new doghouse success, DR GINNY. And you didn't use a realtor!
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 05:32:16 PM: No plans in the works for tomorrow, but dinner could be fun. Give me a call when you know your schedule.

I knew I was missing a hypen in there somewhere. My apologies to Mr. Jay-Alexander. And now that you mention it, I do sort of remember him being at Ms. Somers' show...

And speaking of food delivery...my burger is here! Ciao for niao!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:32:59 PM: Thank the Lord in His Heaven that DRJASON now has clean underwear for tomorrow.

What if there had been an accident?
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:34:04 PM: Thanks for the SOUND OF MUSIC pic, DRJOSE. What a kick! I still love that movie.

I got my NEW and IMPROVED television home theatre in a box from WalMart....and RCA receiver and speakers and subwoofer...and it is so nice...just in time for:
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:34:20 PM: The End Is Near!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:34:37 PM: The End is Near!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:34:53 PM: The World Will End Tonight!
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:35:44 PM: The World Will End Tonight on CBS!!!! Don't forget to watch! Gina Gershon is in it! Maybe she will say her famous line from SHOWGIRLS: "You're a whore, darlin'!"
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Post by: Jrand73 on November 13, 2005, 05:36:05 PM: That is all from Chicken Little Central!
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Post by: Danise on November 13, 2005, 05:41:41 PM: Speaking of the end being near, I remember one time I was in the grocery check out line. The headline on one of the rag newspapers stated that world was going to end that week or weekend (can't remember which).

I asked the check out girl if I should put my groceries back and come back later 'cause we all know that the Enquirer wouldn't lie!

Of course, I can't explain why we are all here now. :D
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Post by: Jane on November 13, 2005, 05:50:22 PM: On the phone with Bryan-will be back later.
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 05:57:31 PM: Quote from: bk on November 13, 2005, 12:27:41 PM
...Some people I could name better be getting off their butt cheeks or there will be hell toupee.
Some of the regular customers where I work have hell toupees. And there's lousy dye jobs aplenty out there, too!

And lots of women who need Rogaine.

:P
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Post by: S. Woody White on November 13, 2005, 05:59:23 PM: Time to watch Iron Chef America. Tonight, Bobby Flay is cooking against the Two Hot Talames. I hope they kick his butt!!!
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 06:14:41 PM: Quote from: JRand55 on November 13, 2005, 05:32:15 PM
Congrats on the new doghouse success, DR GINNY. And you didn't use a realtor!

DR JRand, DR Danise is the one with the new doghouse; I'm the one who'll be in the doghouse at work if I take my GrantRant public :-X
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 06:19:21 PM: Went to a lovely partay at the Pogues. Back now, but must have a little production meeting, and then it's back to viewing another five or six DVDs. Then, tomorrow someone will be buying about eight more DVDs for me to view on Tuesday. Then I'll have everything ready to be digitized for putting together the clip reel.
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Post by: MBarnum on November 13, 2005, 06:28:53 PM: BK, Ms. Sue England is an alumni of LACC's theater dept. Any idea if she will be there???

She wasn't a big star but she did have the lead in TEEN AGE CRIMEWAVE and was in a Bomba the Jungle Boy movie!
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 06:34:46 PM: :D I've just made plane reservations for DH Richard and me for our 25th wedding anniversary week in NYC! We'll arrive on Monday, January 16 and stay until Sunday, January 22. DR Danise, I'm pretty sure we'll see some snow!
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Post by: Ginny on November 13, 2005, 06:42:17 PM: DH Richard, who has not flown since 1994, was watching over my shoulder as I was online making our reservations and selecting our seats and everything. He said, "Wow, this must be why the travel agents are going out of business!"
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Post by: Jane on November 13, 2005, 06:48:16 PM: TPunk just today my brother said for us to see Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Since it isn’t playing here we put it on our NetFlix queue and saw Good Night, Good Luck.
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Post by: Michael on November 13, 2005, 07:06:44 PM: Dear TD

What are the dates you will be in NYC
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:50:07 PM: DR Ginny - I LOVE New York City in January. It's always been my favorite time to go. It's sort of neat watching the city slow down a little due to the cold, wind, snow, slush, etc. And there's nothing like walking down Broadway from 103rd to Times Square - Natural Dermabrasion!

And the hotel rates get silly low! My favorite place to stay, The Skyline Hotel, has offered their nice, big room for as low as $75/night! And they'll even throw in the parking sometimes!
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 07:51:18 PM: Well...

Nothing like a couple of hands of Uno... And a couple of blender-fuls of pina coladas to help pass the evening.

...I do believe I'm a bit tipsy.

;)
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:10:44 PM: Enjoyed another hour of DIE HARD but still have almost an hour left of it to watch. For a change, NFL football didn't run over on CBS so shows started at their regularly scheduled times.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:13:49 PM: KISS KISS BANG BANG is another film that I do want to see. I hadn't heard a lot about it, but read a couple of "preview" rundowns, and it sounded like loads of fun. It's not playing at a theater near me at the moment, so I think I might wait a week or so to see if any of the theater chains shift movies around to one that's closer. They often do this as new movies come out the following week, and since HARRY POTTER will be taking up multiple screens at all these cineplexes come next weekend, the chances of its being moved somewhere else are very good.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:16:04 PM: COLD CASE had another off night, I thought, with a case involving the murder of a young dot com executive. So far this season, I haven't been able to watch every week due to NFL football games running long, but of the three or four shows I have seen that are new this season, none has matched the emotional impact of the best cases from the last two years.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:20:39 PM: DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. Well, my favorite Richard Burgi had a major part to play tonight, and I flipped for him all over again. Love him. And Teri Hatcher was better tonight than she's been all season, I thought: more real, more identifiably human and less a frenzied cartoon character.

How much longer can George get away with the things he's doing? Going beyond satire to absurdity.

Still don't like the Applewhite's storyline but perhaps now it's going to pick up.

Nice to see Alex Mapa as Gabrielle's dress consultant.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:22:25 PM: As for ROME, well, let's just say that even GLADIATOR wasn't as graphically explicit as ROME was tonight in the arena sequence. I was wincing and turning away every few seconds. My, oh, my, can they make these slaughters real today or what?
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:24:09 PM: Since I was able to watch ROME tonight and erase it from the DVR, that leaves only BIRTH on the DVR to be watched.

That means after I finish DIE HARD tomorrow, I should be able to get to MYSTERIOUS SKIN tomorrow and will post my feelings about it after I've seen it.
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Post by: Jason on November 13, 2005, 08:29:57 PM: Yes, hold your hats and hallelujah, Jack: I have clean undies! Enough clean undies to last me for at least three weeks should I need them. And the world sighs a collective sigh of relief. :)
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Post by: Jennifer on November 13, 2005, 08:33:28 PM: DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES SPOILERS FOR TONIGHT'S SHOW.

Quote from: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 08:20:39 PM
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES. Well, my favorite Richard Burgi had a major part to play tonight, and I flipped for him all over again. Love him. And Teri Hatcher was better tonight than she's been all season, I thought: more real, more identifiably human and less a frenzied cartoon character.

How much longer can George get away with the things he's doing? Going beyond satire to absurdity.

Still don't like the Applewhite's storyline but perhaps now it's going to pick up.

Nice to see Alex Mapa as Gabrielle's dress consultant.

I don't really care for Richard Burgi, and was not really that fond of Teri Hatcher's story tonight. Although for once she did seem much more level-headed and less loopy.

Really dislike Alfre's story. Not at all interesting still.

Don't really like George either. But am liking Bree a lot more lately. Loved the scenes with her and Gabrielle.

Lynnette's storyline was okay, sort of amusing. I think tonight I enjoyed Gabrielle's the most, especially since she got the cliffhanger ending.

I still wish they would show all the women together more. I liked seeing the women (minus Lynette) eating ice cream! And Bree was pretty funny, as usual.
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Post by: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 08:39:12 PM: Well, after getting up early today - well, early for me - and then driving up to NYC... And then having two and half pina coladas... I'm a bit tired... And since I want to stop by Lestat rehearsal tomorrow before I head over to Ripley-Grier...

One WUSSBURGER WITH CHEESE, signing off.

Goodnight.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 08:44:30 PM: Don't know Sue England, but if you can get in touch with her, it would be nice to have her at the event, unless she's no longer with us, in which case she won't be there.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 08:46:01 PM: Got through over twenty DVDs today - only two left from the original pile, then I should have about eight to ten more to go through on Tuesday and that should be it.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 09:10:22 PM: People come, people go, like Grand Hotel.

I must now put my brain into staging land - I must sit in the Jacuzzi and start visualizing my opening number, which I'll be staging tomorrow at six. I have the opening somewhat figured out, but once we're past the first chorus and I have to start bringing the entire cast into it, then I just have to figure out patterns and blocking areas.

Once I've got it all up on its feet, if I feel the need, then a choreographer will be coming in to smooth it out.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 09:15:51 PM: Quote from: JoseSPiano on November 13, 2005, 01:13:14 PM
DR DearReaderLaura - Maybe I missed it... But what was it that had the potential to make this weekend a "train-wreck weekend"? -If you care to share.

The minister had planned an entire weekend's worth of activities trying to get the neighborhood to come and hear a mediocre Hispanic band. The result was that one person came because he thought we were doing a free car wash -- and left when it wasn't. Expensive, time consuming, and useless -- as I knew it would be. He was rather humble this morning.
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Post by: Matt H. on November 13, 2005, 09:16:30 PM: I'm going to pull the last part of a GRAND HOTEL and go . . . . to bed.

Good night, all.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 09:16:52 PM: Page 6 dance:
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on November 13, 2005, 09:17:34 PM: The good news, though, is that two years after ripping up the floor in the dining room, my DH is installing the wood floor.
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Post by: MBarnum on November 13, 2005, 09:18:02 PM: Quote from: bk on November 13, 2005, 08:44:30 PM
Don't know Sue England, but if you can get in touch with her, it would be nice to have her at the event, unless she's no longer with us, in which case she won't be there.

And see I was hoping YOU would find her at the event so that you could let her know that I want very much to interview her!!

As far as I know, she is still around...just don't know where! :(
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Post by: td on November 13, 2005, 09:21:35 PM: Quote from: Michael S on November 13, 2005, 07:06:44 PM
Dear TD

What are the dates you will be in NYC

I will be the dates for Douglas Sills, Christopher Siebert, Matthew Morrison . . .et cetera, et cetera and so forth. :o
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Post by: TCB on November 13, 2005, 09:29:18 PM: Quote from: td on November 13, 2005, 09:21:35 PM
I will be the dates for Douglas Sills, Christopher Siebert, Matthew Morrison . . .et cetera, et cetera and so forth. :o

Tramp!
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Post by: TCB on November 13, 2005, 09:40:15 PM: For the first time since July of '04, I am not in production, rehearsal, or even pre-production for a show! No scripts to memorize, no characters to develop and inhabit, no rehearsals to drag myself to -- in other words, I officially no longer have a life.
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Post by: td on November 13, 2005, 09:40:57 PM: Quote from: TCB on November 13, 2005, 09:29:18 PM
Tramp!

TCB, you say the sweetest things! :-*

Perhaps I should whisper dolce far niente to you sometime. . . ;)
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 09:48:36 PM: Still waiting for Ye Olde Jacuzzi to get to the proper temperature.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 09:48:47 PM: About nine degrees to go.
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Post by: bk on November 13, 2005, 10:57:16 PM: No posts in over an hour. What a revoltin' development this is. Skammen. Nothing but WUSSBURGERS. Not even WUSSBURGERS but WUSSBURGERS WITH CHEESE. When did we become a site on namby-pamby sleepyheads who WUSSBURGER out before ten o'clock my time? We used to have fun and late-night sprees, and it was all just too too.

Who am I talking to? I'm the only one in the jernt. I shall now take my sweet time writing the notes, and when they'll be posted is anyone's guess.
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Post by: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 11:44:44 PM: Hello DR George.. did you get to play "Night Music" etc?
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Post by: George on November 13, 2005, 11:58:02 PM: Quote from: Danise on November 13, 2005, 03:39:58 PM
I'm glad for that, DearReaderLaura!

DR George, I like the new picture. :)

Thanks! It's actually a picture that was taken a year and a half ago.
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Post by: George on November 14, 2005, 12:00:08 AM: Quote from: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 11:44:44 PM
Hello DR George.. did you get to play "Night Music" etc?

Yes! I really enjoyed it. Thanks! I just started to listen to Sweeney on Thursday and I left them both at work, so I didn't get a chance to listen at all this weekend. But I'll be able to finish it tomorrow. :)
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Post by: George on November 14, 2005, 12:04:15 AM: Quote from: Jane on November 13, 2005, 05:26:40 PM
George you are looking good.

And thank you! :D
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Post by: George on November 14, 2005, 12:11:58 AM: Quote from: Tomovoz on November 13, 2005, 11:44:44 PM
Hello DR George.. did you get to play "Night Music" etc?

Tomovoz, I'll be able to send you something in a couple of days! ;D