Good morning, all! Back to Barnes & Noble today, and I hope it goes well. There's rain predicted for Manhattan, so we may have a store with slippery floors, as well as several maintenance folk with mops, today. If anyone falls, I hope I'm not the one.
I spent the afternon yesterday taping five hours of Wheeler and Wolsey and the Ritz Brothers for DRRodzinski while I worked at my desk. It was a pleasantly uneventful day.
TOD:
The Act Two Quintet, if not all, of CARMEN, which is the most inventive and fantastic score not by Mozart (I could never be in his league).
Since I started with an opera, here are a few scores I wish I'd written:
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY ballet (Tchaikovsky)
Ravel's Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet & Strings
THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Weill)
PETER AND THE WOLF (Prokofiev)
ALBERT HERRING (Britten)
The Enigma Variations (especially "Nimrod") (Elgar)
THE MIKADO (Gilbert/Sullivan)
Musicals:
SHOWBOAT
OKLAHOMA!
THE GOLDEN APPLE
BABES IN TOYLAND
SITTING PRETTY
FOLLIES
KISS ME, KATE
Songs:
Old Friend (Cryer & Ford)
Long ago And Far Away (Gershwin/Kern)
Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
Good Night, Irene (Leadbelly)
Begin the Beguine (Porter)
On the Street Where You Live (Lerner/Lowe)
I Can't Get Started (Gershwin/Duke)
Here, There, and Everywhere (The Beatles)
If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
Disneyland (Ashman/Hamlisch)
New Words (Yeston)
And around 1,000,000 others!