Tuesday morning greetings! A thunderstorm was my alarm clock this morning and now it's just raining.
Rob returned yesterday from Michigan, where he attended this production (http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011104160301). Mother Earth will soon be our daughter-in-law!
Tuesday morning greetings! A thunderstorm was my alarm clock this morning and now it's just raining.
Rob returned yesterday from Michigan, where he attended this production (http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011104160301). Mother Earth will soon be our daughter-in-law!
Good - can you ask her to please send Spring to Long Island?
And the word of the day is: CALLIOPEAN!
I'm here, DR Elmore, though my chores are a'callin' me...
I'm here, DR Elmore, though my chores are a'callin' me...
Good morning, DTM! I'm just in a crabby mood. I'm going to work some of it off by doing the laundry.
I'm here, DR Elmore, though my chores are a'callin' me...
Good morning, DTM! I'm just in a crabby mood. I'm going to work some of it off by doing the laundry.
"Ring around the collar! RING AROUND THE COLLAR!!!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3N_skYSGoY)
We just had a sudden deluge - YIKES!
Here come the thunderstorms.....and heavy rain....thunder and lightning......it IS spring after all.
Patience is not a virtue I possess.
Here come the thunderstorms.....and heavy rain....thunder and lightning......it IS spring after all.
DR elmore - I will be heading down to DC for some more pre-Oklahoma! work on Thursday or Friday. If it's just one piece of music you need researched at the LoC, I'd be more than happy to do some leg work for you.
I know it's not Ask BK/Ask DR Day, but...
A colleague of mine was wondering who did the orchestrations for the movie of "The Sound of Music". On the IMDB they list Irwin Kostal as the music supervisor, arranger and conductor, but there's no orchestrator credit listed - at least not on the IMDB. I know that the original Broadway orchestrations were done by Robert Russell Bennett - with the choral arrangements by Trude Rittman.
Did Kostal adapt Bennett's and Rittman's originals? Or did he start from scratch as it were?
DR elmore?
DR elmore - I will be heading down to DC for some more pre-Oklahoma! work on Thursday or Friday. If it's just one piece of music you need researched at the LoC, I'd be more than happy to do some leg work for you.
DR Jose, that's very kind. I may take you up on that. Let me see if Loras at the LoC learns anything from my phone inquiry yesterday.
Get those cheap tickets, Junior!
In related news...
Amtrak just started a 3-day sale for travel between DC and NYC if you're traveling between May 10-26, 2011. Fares as low as $29. -I think the catch is that that sale fare is only good for travel from DC to NYC (and not southbound). Of course, Amtrak's online booking system is currently down, so...
But once it's back up: Fares as Low as $19 on the Northeast Regional - Three Days Only (http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?ff=Yes&c=AM_Content_C&pagename=am%2FLayout&p=1237405732514&cid=1248543467861)
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
In related news...
Amtrak just started a 3-day sale for travel between DC and NYC if you're traveling between May 10-26, 2011. Fares as low as $29. -I think the catch is that that sale fare is only good for travel from DC to NYC (and not southbound). Of course, Amtrak's online booking system is currently down, so...
But once it's back up: Fares as Low as $19 on the Northeast Regional - Three Days Only (http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?ff=Yes&c=AM_Content_C&pagename=am%2FLayout&p=1237405732514&cid=1248543467861)
Maybe I can take advantage of that!
As is the case with evey day I've done laundry in the past month, it's raining.
I've made the important phone call and sent two emails to my colleague Curtis,. I'm very fond of him and I do like working with him, but things on his end are moving too slowly for my schedule, and I am very unhappy at the moment.
I hate waiting when i need answers.
Sandra should write the book.
In related news...
Amtrak just started a 3-day sale for travel between DC and NYC if you're traveling between May 10-26, 2011. Fares as low as $29. -I think the catch is that that sale fare is only good for travel from DC to NYC (and not southbound). Of course, Amtrak's online booking system is currently down, so...
But once it's back up: Fares as Low as $19 on the Northeast Regional - Three Days Only (http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?ff=Yes&c=AM_Content_C&pagename=am%2FLayout&p=1237405732514&cid=1248543467861)
Maybe I can take advantage of that!
At least once the site is back up...
And according to the fine print, the $29 fare is only good for DC to NYC, not from NYC to DC. And, again, it's only good for travel May 10-26. -Which, I guess, isn't really that far way.
Re: Laura Nyro. I had a very sweet, but kind of sad, occurrence at a piano bar many years ago. It was the week Laura died, and for some reason without even really thinking about it, I started playing "Captain St. Lucifer," hardly one of her best known songs, but a favorite of mine. All of a sudden a woman across the room started weeping, and she came up to me and told me she not only recognized the tune, but that she had grown up with Laura and the two had been best friends at a summer camp they went to for several years running. Amazing--all of this in Portland, Oregon.
A favorite MAD magazine song parody title was "Hey, Overlook Me"
One of my mom's friends came to the sedar yesterday.He is a really good cook. He made 2 dishes that were excellent (potato latkes and smoked meat). And better yet he left me will all the leftover smoked meat brisket. It was so good. I told him he's my new best friend.
Can't wait to eat it again!
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
Rob returned yesterday from Michigan, where he attended this production (http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011104160301). Mother Earth will soon be our daughter-in-law!
A favorite MAD magazine song parody title was "Hey, Overlook Me"
LOL! And then from HOT L BALTIMORE there was "We Shall Come Over".
As for the Topic of the Day...
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
;)
With a special affection for the score of On the Twentieth Century especially "Life Is Like A Train" and "Never".
A favorite MAD magazine song parody title was "Hey, Overlook Me"
DR Jennifer - we submitted our passport applications at our local county clerk's office and the person who accepted them DID look askance at my birth certificate and said it MIGHT not be accepted by the State Department. I hoped it was just her lack of familiarity with other states, but I guess she was right...
One of my mom's friends came to the sedar yesterday.He is a really good cook. He made 2 dishes that were excellent (potato latkes and smoked meat). And better yet he left me will all the leftover smoked meat brisket. It was so good. I told him he's my new best friend.
Can't wait to eat it again!
How nice. Once again a year without a sedar. I really must go to L.A. next year where I will have several invites.
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
Too confusing. ;) ;D
DtM - Is that from the play or the Tv series of HOT L BALTIMORE?
And, finally, here's a musical egg that the Easter bunny brought me when I was about 5 years old. It plays "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?"
As for the Topic of the Day...
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
;)
With a special affection for the score of On the Twentieth Century especially "Life Is Like A Train" and "Never".
And, finally, here's a musical egg that the Easter bunny brought me when I was about 5 years old. It plays "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?"
DR Ginny, I have a later version of that Easter egg music box. Mine is purple and plays "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". Is yours also made by Mattel?
This is the short trailer I did for my Carole Lombard play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1Zkyk-ZqM
One of my mom's friends came to the sedar yesterday.He is a really good cook. He made 2 dishes that were excellent (potato latkes and smoked meat). And better yet he left me will all the leftover smoked meat brisket. It was so good. I told him he's my new best friend.
Can't wait to eat it again!
How nice. Once again a year without a sedar. I really must go to L.A. next year where I will have several invites.
Why don't you have your own and invite some friends from around town.
Michael Sarrazin has died. Did anyone post that here?
Nice Easter photos, DR Ginny. I don't think I have anything, but a couple of Easter plates. I usually just decorate with wine glasses anyway.
Michael Sarrazin has died. Did anyone post that here?
Someone I know was talking about bacon-wrapped matzoh balls earlier this week. Don't think those are vegan, either. Or kosher.
Well, the guy who mentioned it was Jewish. Studying to be a Methodist minister. And former vegetarian, who went back to meat at my house one Easter when I served these amazing jalapeno-cheddar sausages.Someone I know was talking about bacon-wrapped matzoh balls earlier this week. Don't think those are vegan, either. Or kosher.
;D I think not. Yuck anyway.
I need to try the new iron I purchased yesterday.
I know it's not Ask BK/Ask DR Day, but...
A colleague of mine was wondering who did the orchestrations for the movie of "The Sound of Music". On the IMDB they list Irwin Kostal as the music supervisor, arranger and conductor, but there's no orchestrator credit listed - at least not on the IMDB. I know that the original Broadway orchestrations were done by Robert Russell Bennett - with the choral arrangements by Trude Rittman.
Did Kostal adapt Bennett's and Rittman's originals? Or did he start from scratch as it were?
DR elmore?
I think he started from the song sheets published and Rodgers' written copies, but I'd have to ask Bruce Pomahac, who knows all things R&H thoroughly. He might have worked from the published vocal score, but so many of the numbers were expanded and extended for the filming, although most of the arrangements don't sound much like Bennett's originals at all to me, although Trude's work sounds expanded. Keys were changed for some numbers, and I believe that Rodgers had next to no input on "I Have Confidence." Saul Chaplin implies that he and Kostal put it together from bits of the score and a tune and rough lyric that Rodgers sent to LA. How much of that's true and how much is Chaplin stressing his own importance I can't say.
I know it's not Ask BK/Ask DR Day, but...
A colleague of mine was wondering who did the orchestrations for the movie of "The Sound of Music". On the IMDB they list Irwin Kostal as the music supervisor, arranger and conductor, but there's no orchestrator credit listed - at least not on the IMDB. I know that the original Broadway orchestrations were done by Robert Russell Bennett - with the choral arrangements by Trude Rittman.
Did Kostal adapt Bennett's and Rittman's originals? Or did he start from scratch as it were?
DR elmore?
I think he started from the song sheets published and Rodgers' written copies, but I'd have to ask Bruce Pomahac, who knows all things R&H thoroughly. He might have worked from the published vocal score, but so many of the numbers were expanded and extended for the filming, although most of the arrangements don't sound much like Bennett's originals at all to me, although Trude's work sounds expanded. Keys were changed for some numbers, and I believe that Rodgers had next to no input on "I Have Confidence." Saul Chaplin implies that he and Kostal put it together from bits of the score and a tune and rough lyric that Rodgers sent to LA. How much of that's true and how much is Chaplin stressing his own importance I can't say.
IIRC, the entire list of orchestrators can be found on the opening credits of the film.
I need to try the new iron I purchased yesterday.
Richard bought us a new iron today and is trying it out right now.
Yes, please will me your kitschy tchochkes.
I think we need a photo, MBarnum.We need one.
Michael Sarrazin was so good in THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE FLIMFLAM MAN.
My favorite companion from the Dr. Who series Elizabeth Sladen passed away at the age of 63. She played Sarah Jane Smith and was the only connection from the orginal series and the current revival. She worked with three incarnations of the doctor and appeared in two spinoffs. K9 and Friends and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She appeared in more episodes than any other companion.
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/doctor-who-star-elisabeth-sladen-dies-at-63 (http://www.hitfix.com/articles/doctor-who-star-elisabeth-sladen-dies-at-63)
Just checked out the "Remastered Edition" of The Boy Friend. Um, no. Sad to say but it's faded and brownish from its original glorious color. Very disappointing, as many of the recent Warners transfers have gotten the color right. All they had to do was add blue and it would have been much better.Bummer. I was really looking forward to it. I don't think I've seen the movie since it was originally released and I don't want to remember how many years ago that was.
Just checked out the "Remastered Edition" of The Boy Friend. Um, no. Sad to say but it's faded and brownish from its original glorious color. Very disappointing, as many of the recent Warners transfers have gotten the color right. All they had to do was add blue and it would have been much better.
Reading about DR Ginny's birth certificate issues.
I find it extremely odd that the person at the passport office did not tell you that your birth certificate was not acceptable. I would contact the passport office.
It does seem to happen a lot that people need new proper birth certificates (i did too). But for the passport office not to tell you... well that is not fair to you. That person made a mistake.
Michael Sarrazin was so good in THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE FLIMFLAM MAN.
I don't think he was in the Illustrated Man. That was Robert (or was it RIchard) Drivas
JEWS AND BASEBALL arrived in my mailbox today... Woo and hoo!
Reading about DR Ginny's birth certificate issues.
I find it extremely odd that the person at the passport office did not tell you that your birth certificate was not acceptable. I would contact the passport office.
It does seem to happen a lot that people need new proper birth certificates (i did too). But for the passport office not to tell you... well that is not fair to you. That person made a mistake.
What difference would it make to contact the passport. Granted they should have told her, but the bottom line is that the U.S. Government will not issue her a passport with that birth certificate.
Michael Sarrazin was so good in THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE FLIMFLAM MAN.
I don't think he was in the Illustrated Man. That was Robert (or was it RIchard) Drivas
Robert Drivas; he and Terrence McNally were partners for years.
According to Amazon this morning, Jews and Baseball has shipped!!! :)
JEWS AND BASEBALL arrived in my mailbox today... Woo and hoo!
And mine was only just shipped, now I'm not as happy as I was this morning ;)
THE KINGS SPEECH should arrive tomorrow.
The story of Chesea, the missing Bernese Mountain Dog, continues. I hope you can read this incredible story of the people behind the story-amazing!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jennifer-lennon/chelsea-update/10150567050155006
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
Ah, yes, those were the not-so-good old days. And people wonder why I never take time to think about my childhood.Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
I never had any nicknames when i was growing up. Unless you include faggot and sissy.
The story of Chesea, the missing Bernese Mountain Dog, continues. I hope you can read this incredible story of the people behind the story-amazing!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jennifer-lennon/chelsea-update/10150567050155006
Jane I can't get the link to work...what is the news?
As is the case with evey day I've done laundry in the past month, it's raining.
I've made the important phone call and sent two emails to my colleague Curtis,. I'm very fond of him and I do like working with him, but things on his end are moving too slowly for my schedule, and I am very unhappy at the moment.
I hate waiting when i need answers.
All is now good. Curtis is off to England on the BAM-Royal Shakespeare Co (?) Bridge Project and his absence will make things about preparing socres for EILEEN more difficult than I would have preferred. Now that I know we're okay, I can relax a bit.
The story of Chesea, the missing Bernese Mountain Dog, continues. I hope you can read this incredible story of the people behind the story-amazing!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jennifer-lennon/chelsea-update/10150567050155006
Jane I can't get the link to work...what is the news?
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
I never had any nicknames when i was growing up. Unless you include faggot and sissy.
Welcome to new DR JOSE CARLOS SIMBULAN JR
Well... According to my mother - at least when I was nine-years old - my name would have been:
DR J. CARLOS SIMBULAN, JR.
*And that was on top of the close to 20 nicknames I had somehow garnered when I was in grade school. -And then when you couple that with the whole "Are you my real cousin? or just the kid of one of my mom's best friends?" conundrum...
::)
I never had any nicknames when i was growing up. Unless you include faggot and sissy.
The library ordered four copies of "Jews and Baseball." Just made my reservation for it when it comes in.
Nice Easter photos, DR Ginny. I don't think I have anything, but a couple of Easter plates. I usually just decorate with wine glasses anyway.
As is the case with evey day I've done laundry in the past month, it's raining.
I've made the important phone call and sent two emails to my colleague Curtis,. I'm very fond of him and I do like working with him, but things on his end are moving too slowly for my schedule, and I am very unhappy at the moment.
I hate waiting when i need answers.
All is now good. Curtis is off to England on the BAM-Royal Shakespeare Co (?) Bridge Project and his absence will make things about preparing socres for EILEEN more difficult than I would have preferred. Now that I know we're okay, I can relax a bit.
I didn't understand that statement at all. Perhaps I should ask MBarnum to translate.
Just checked out the "Remastered Edition" of The Boy Friend. Um, no. Sad to say but it's faded and brownish from its original glorious color. Very disappointing, as many of the recent Warners transfers have gotten the color right. All they had to do was add blue and it would have been much better.
My first landlady in Oxford, Ohio, was a collector of varieties of DaVinci's "The Last Supper," which covered - and littered - her house as antimacassars, paint-by-numbers, bowls, ash trays, plates, velvet paintings, fabrics, etc. It was a trip to pay the rent.Nice Easter photos, DR Ginny. I don't think I have anything, but a couple of Easter plates. I usually just decorate with wine glasses anyway.
Full?
The library ordered four copies of "Jews and Baseball." Just made my reservation for it when it comes in.
:)
Not by the end of the evening.Nice Easter photos, DR Ginny. I don't think I have anything, but a couple of Easter plates. I usually just decorate with wine glasses anyway.
Full?
DR Jose, I need a rehearsal studio next Wednesday and the 72nd Street Studios are booked. Got any ideas? I just need room for three people, a CD player and a piano.
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What?
My brother and sister in lw will be hosting our Easter dinner -- I have been asked to bring deviled eggs - specifically the recipe taught to me by FJL's DP Skip
Just checked out the "Remastered Edition" of The Boy Friend. Um, no. Sad to say but it's faded and brownish from its original glorious color. Very disappointing, as many of the recent Warners transfers have gotten the color right. All they had to do was add blue and it would have been much better.
Oh!
And through the wonders of Twitter - as well as some serendipitous timing today - I won a pair of tickets to see Wicked. The Sweetery (http://sweeterynyc.com/) truck has teamed up with the Travelocity Roaming Gnome this week in NYC, and they're giving away various "green" prizes - as well as green whoopie pies too!
Michael Sarrazin was so good in THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE FLIMFLAM MAN.
I don't think he was in the Illustrated Man. That was Robert (or was it RIchard) Drivas
Robert Drivas; he and Terrence McNally were partners for years.
My brother and sister in lw will be hosting our Easter dinner -- I have been asked to bring deviled eggs - specifically the recipe taught to me by FJL's DP Skip
Can I come for Easter dinner? ;)
My brother and sister in lw will be hosting our Easter dinner -- I have been asked to bring deviled eggs - specifically the recipe taught to me by FJL's DP SkipShare the recipe, please.
I would be happy to have you join us, Jose, if you could make it to San Antonio.
That's it for me. I can't think any more.
Just checked out the "Remastered Edition" of The Boy Friend. Um, no. Sad to say but it's faded and brownish from its original glorious color. Very disappointing, as many of the recent Warners transfers have gotten the color right. All they had to do was add blue and it would have been much better.
Is it the US version or the UK version?