So, what are your all-time favorite fruits, and how do you like to prepare them, aside from just eating them raw – do you like making dishes with them or special desserts with them. Anything fruit, that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
What DR Noel refers to as "Eurotrash Musicals" is not a separate form. These shows are an extention of the concept musical, in their case re-imagining the traditional operetta. We are still chronologically in the concept musical generation, although a new generation should be starting shortly. All it's going to take is a breakthrough show, such as Oklahoma! and Company were breakthroughs.
What DR Noel refers to as "Eurotrash Musicals" is not a separate form. These shows are an extention of the concept musical, in their case re-imagining the traditional operetta. We are still chronologically in the concept musical generation, although a new generation should be starting shortly. All it's going to take is a breakthrough show, such as Oklahoma! and Company were breakthroughs.
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I love the google thing. I am a make-up artist, a photographer, and I'm giving a flute recital. The flute woman has a pic, which I don't like! :)
But I can occasionally get over to the Reading Terminal (I'll have to describe this place for the DRs at some point)
I'm trying to get alert, but so far have only achieved al...
My 'behave-your-self on the train ride back home treat" was always an Ice Cream cone from:(http://readingterminalmarket.org/images/logo/bassetts.gif)the Reading Terminal market.
btw... you all simply HAVE to try this. It's gotten all my guesses right so far:
http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html
Memo to DR Stuart:
Are all fruits kosher?
der Brucer (trying on his "straight" face)
Stuart - you must be missing some posts! (That sounds like an insult of some sort, but it isn't!)
Okay, back to work.
...or slathered or perhaps smeared with peanut butter.
(wonder what bad Jewish boys do?)
FRUIT PÁLINKA
How good is Hungarian pálinka? Edward VIII, heir to the English throne, answered this question when visiting Hungary in 1935 as follows: 'The apricot pálinka of Kecskemét drunk with soda is better than whisky, and with tea better than rum.' The fruit, whose delicious and distinctive floral scent, and light spicy bouquet are transmitted to fruit-specific noble spirits, is grown on expertly tended fruit trees. After resting and ageing the spirit becomes smoother, airy and rounded, and its flavours and aroma harmoniously integrated. This is how wonderful Hungarian fruit is turned into fruit-specific fruit-brandy which inimitably resembles the original fruit.
Would you REALLY like to know?
This is the story of Gloomy Sunday
Written in 1933 ,by a Budapest pianist named Rezs?Seress, Szomoru Vasarnap (Gloomy Sunday) became infamous throughout Hungary after a spate of suicides was linked to the song. The newspapers of the day began to report stories of lovelorn individuals who had taken their own lives directly after listening to it's haunting melody. Some had died clutching the lyric sheets or left suicide notes quoting lines from the song. A few years later, as it's dark reputation had grown, the lyrics were re-written by the Poet Lászl?Jávor. His take on the song was less despairing and more melancholy, with a third - less pessamistic - stanza. But the suicides continued. Soon after an English version of the song was recorded, as 'Gloomy Sunday', by Sam Lewis. This was followed by recordings in the early forties by, first, Artie Shaw and then most famously by Billie Holiday. Although it's reputation was unknown outside of Hungary soon reports of suicides in America and ,later, the UK began to circulate. The BBC actually banned the song from broadcast - although an orchestral version was a minor hit. The ban remains to this day. Rezs?Seress' girlfriend jumped from a Budapest bridge into the Duna (Danube). She left a suicide note which read simply 'Szomoru Vasarnap'. Rezs? himself died by jumping from the window of his flat in 1968. Gloomy Sunday, that strange, haunting song of a broken heart longing to be with it's lost love had finally come for it's creator. More recently, artist such as Sarah MacClachlan, Bjork and The Bronski Quartet have all recorded interpretations of the song.
And that's the story of 'Gloomy Sunday' - the Hungarian Suicide song…
GLOOMY SUNDAY
Sunday is gloomy
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coach
Of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy is Sunday
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I
Have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I’m caressing you
With the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday
Well, here's a jolly on-line trio:
Jay, Stuart and me!
Trio? I spy a sextet.
Shall we all sing that number from Lucia now?
Trio? I spy a sextet.
Shall we all sing that number from Lucia now?
And there enlies the difference between my brother and I. You mention sextet to him and he conjures up crazy women singing on the moors.
You mention Sextet to me, and I think if the inimitable Mae West and one frighteningly bad movie.
I. You mention sextet to him and he conjures up crazy women singing on the moors.
You mean like Othello carrying Medea on his sholders?
Smack him, Mike!RLP - You're quite the vicious boy today. Maybe the pain in your arm is making you angry at the world. >:(
rhubarb (is this really a fruit?)
RLP - You're quite the vicious boy today. Maybe the pain in your arm is making you angry at the world. >:(
MBarnum - Is the Deana Durbin set out yet?
Did I make you "angry" with my comment? Isn't that what the icon you used means?
As for your categorizing me as "vicious"
Fair enough. I'll write about operetta at some later point, but for now I'd like to hear what pre-Miserable musicals would fit the definition of Eurotrash, reprinted below:Noel, that is a FALSE definition of Eurotrash. It's something you've made up. You are not a character in a book by Lewis Carroll, so if you really want a substantive conversation on the subject, please, PLEASE, PLEASE start using words as the rest of the world uses them. Otherwise, I see no reason in continuing this discussion with you.
Eurotrash, n.
A large musical usually by at least one European writer, from the last 20 years with some or all of the following characteristics:
1. Little or no dialogue
2. Plot concerns something unusally tragic or sad
3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place
4. Cliche lyrics, usually with dull rhyme schemes and false rhymes
5. Self-pity
6. Bad taste
7. Little or no humor or wit
8. Absence of subtext. Characters tell you exactly how they feel (often self-pity) leaving the audience nothing to do or discover
My favorite fruit is Harvey Fierstein.
Fair enough. I'll write about operetta at some later point, but for now I'd like to hear what pre-Miserable musicals would fit the definition of Eurotrash, reprinted below:Well, let's start by trashing that garbage about "the last 20 years or so." Example numero uno: Tommy, by Pete Townsend and the other members of The Who. Originally released as a concept album in 1969, done in concert versions then as a film, and finally produced on stage in 1992. Took a while, but it set the precedent. Perhaps not a true "operetta" in it's structure, but billed as a "rock opera," and the first in the new line.
Eurotrash, n.
A large musical usually by at least one European writer, from the last 20 years with some or all of the following characteristics:
1. Little or no dialogue
2. Plot concerns something unusally tragic or sad
3. Anachronistic music, that rocks on with little or no feeling for time and place
4. Cliche lyrics, usually with dull rhyme schemes and false rhymes
5. Self-pity
6. Bad taste
7. Little or no humor or wit
8. Absence of subtext. Characters tell you exactly how they feel (often self-pity) leaving the audience nothing to do or discover
Now to add my two cents here! The great joke about OKLAHOMA! is that they didn't know it was a breakthrough; it was a continuation of methods already in use by Richard Rodgers (PAL JOEY and BABES IN ARMS dream ballets with Balanchine) and Oscar Hammerstein advancing methods to write a "musical play." It's hard to believe that the man who wrote SHOWBOAT turned around and wrote THE NEW MOON, but his MUSIC IN THE AIR libretto is quite good. Hammerstein had it easier with OKLAHOMA! since it was an adaptation of a Lynn Riggs play, but the Will Parker character is totally Hammerstein's since he's only talked about in GREEN GROW THE LILACS and he never appears.Hammerstein was one of the best librettists ever, when it came to operetta/musical play. He wasn't as strong with the musical comedy.
COMPANY is a lot cheekier, playing with time, space, and song, but it's a product of the late 1960s, and it shows its debt to theatrical forms of the time (theatre of the absurd, the Theatre de Lys THREEPENNY OPERA) as well as popular music of the time: I hear a lot of Bacharach; is that Sondheim or Tunick's work on PROMISES, PROMISES? A FUNNY THING HAPPENED . . . and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE employ a lot of the same techniques, but COMPANY seems to be, like OKLAHOMA!, the point where it all melds and changes what's to come without ever being aware of it.Maybe the authors were or weren't aware of the difference. The critics and audiences sure were aware that something had happened. It's one of those "can't see the forest for the trees" scenarios: if you plant the trees, you aren't really aware of them growing, but then someone comes along and sees the beautiful stand and has their breath taken away.
The "concept" musical existed as far back as Kurt Weill's LOVE LIFE, but I've always felt that wasn't quite the correct term, since I often find the "concept" vanishes by the end of the first act. One "concept" musical that works for me is THE FANTASTICKS (commedia dell'arte, Bernstein's CANDIDE, Brecht alienation techniques).Prior to Love Life came Allegro, another musical that Sondheim has cited as an influence.
the Reading Terminal market....When I first took Woody to the Market it was like seeing Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory...Charlie. Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Wonka built the place. Ask any Oompa-Loompa.
...When I was growing up, my mom (who's from Germany) used to make a fruit torte where you bake then invert a thin sponge cake that has a raised edge around the outside.....Here's a picture of the pan:Which we don't carry in the store. Dang.
(http://www.switcheroo.com/Photos/obsttortenform.jpg)
As for your categorizing me as "vicious" -- were you never around during our bitch-slapping frenzies on HHW.com? Everyone bitch-slapped everyone else. It was a slapping fury at times.And a bitch slap for you and your arm!