Topic: I GOT RHYTHM (Read 28238 times)

S. Woody White · « **Reply #90 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:36:52 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on November 14, 2004, 09:42:42 AM

Herewith another lovely trio:

Y'know, I wish you'd tell me when the beard needs trimming. $:-\$

S. Woody White · « **Reply #91 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:37:44 PM »

Page four dance...Something from Barber of Seville, perhaps?

bk · « **Reply #92 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:40:06 PM »

They still have Blimpie's? I used to eat those all the time when I lived in NY.

Danise · « **Reply #93 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:41:26 PM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on November 14, 2004, 03:14:47 PM

The real lesson they were trying to give you girls with the promo had something to do with white slavery, I suspect.

My sister didn't trade in her old Barbie. She did, however, wash the doll's hair once...and all the hair fell out. Poor thing looked like Susan Powter, only this was way before Susan Powter.

Your sister was the wise one. I actually think it was a great way to make the old dolls a collectors item.

Thank you all for the kind words about my lip. It is healing. The problem is/was my having such a small mouth and my unreasonable fear of having my mouth covered. I freak big time because I feel like I'm suffocatng if I can't breath through my mouth. I know that's not true. I can breath just fine through my nose (when I have to) but I can't help the panic I feel.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #94 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:52:03 PM »

Favorite rock & roll movies?

HELP
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
BYE BYE BIRDIE (I agree with DRSWW)
SKI PARTY (Leslie Gore sings "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows")
All the Annette Beach Party movies

Tomovoz · « **Reply #95 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:55:49 PM »

Favourie Rock N Roll movie "It's Trad Dad" - Chubby Checker, Gary U S Bonds, Del Shannon, Gene Vincent, Gene McDaniels, Helen Shairo and Craig Douglas.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #96 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:56:07 PM »

Quote from: Noel on November 14, 2004, 11:10:42 AM

The Music of the Night - a song only a dog could love.

With all the dog lovers at this site, is this a wise thing to say?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #97 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:02:03 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 14, 2004, 03:40:06 PM

They still have Blimpie's? I used to eat those all the time when I lived in NY.

Ask, and ye shall be websited.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #98 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:06:12 PM »

For those who need to know: Today (Tomorrow!) is Petula Clark's birthday.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #99 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:20:38 PM »

I shall do my book ordering direct, face-to-face with the manufacturer. Like the sampling of music clips though!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #100 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:22:44 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on November 14, 2004, 10:12:35 AM

Do people still set up grand and glorious Christmas gardens for their kids? Wonderful Lionel train layouts with rolling hills covered with artificial snow and grassy fields with miniature farms complete with tiny animals.

I still do. Every year, on Thanksgiving weekend, I go to the House of Mom and set up Santa's Wonderland.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #101 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:24:59 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 14, 2004, 11:56:07 AM

Arrangements I love:...Britten's "Variations on a Theme by Purcell"

All right, a follow-up question: would you consider any (Most? All?) works in the Theme and Variations field to be arranging, rather than actual composition?

(BTW, among my favorites in this area are Britten's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of henry Purcell, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations, a.k.a. the second act of Song and Dance. (But I've lost track of how many other composers have writen variations on Paganini's A minor Caprice.))

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #102 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:25:03 PM »

And, because we are Catholic (though perhaps not as reverent as some)...

S. Woody White · « **Reply #103 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:35:33 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 14, 2004, 01:39:10 PM

I am making myself pasta. Of course, then I'll be pasta and I shall look funny. I do hope I'm able to make myself back into me.

I hope you're not making yourself a stuffed pasta, because none of your clothes will fit.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #104 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:40:53 PM »

Garfield at the First Christmas! Nice touch Dan.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #105 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:51:27 PM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on November 14, 2004, 04:24:59 PM

All right, a follow-up question: would you consider any (Most? All?) works in the Theme and Variations field to be arranging, rather than actual composition?

I believe there's always some composition work involved in arranging, but Britten, Brahms, and Ives are also master composers, something Sir andrew will never be, and the Theme and variations situation is a knotty one. As opposed to arranging "Moon River" for Liz Callaway, which is a simpler job of composition and arranging, Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Paganini is a masterpiece of composition, as are Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn, the Ives, the Britten and others. Others I love are Mozart's variations on "Ah vous dirai-je Maman, which Dohnanyi also used in his piano-orchestra variations. However, Beethoven, Britten, Haydn, along with Vaughan Williams, Holst, and others also arranged English folksongs, all different and all interesting, and all involving compositional skills (Britten's "Ash Grove" succeeds a lot because of Britten's bi-tonal skills in handling the emotions of the song). Brahms arranged German folksongs, even wrote a song for mezzo-soprano and viola based on the German carol "Joseph lieber, Joseph mein." Now I'm rambling. does this make any sense?

Danise · « **Reply #106 on:** November 14, 2004, 04:59:18 PM »

Oh my gosh, I forgot all about the gardens under the Christmas tree! Like I've said before, Christmas was the time my Dad was in his element. We had a garden every year!

I'll have to try to dig up some photos but I fear they among the ones destoryed in the accident a few years back. But they live forever in my memory and I'll never forget them.

I remember all the plastic animals we used. One year, I sat at one end and sent the animals by train to my dad on the other side of the tree. For good or ill, we had a great number of pigs and baby pigs. I kept sending them around and my dad said, "NO MORE PIGS!" Of course, little angel that I was

, I kept sending them.

MBarnum · « **Reply #107 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:07:58 PM »

Dan I love the Christmas displays! What a great idea!

MBarnum · « **Reply #108 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:09:12 PM »

My copy of Writer's Block had done been ordered....I do hope I am in the first ten!!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #109 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:09:18 PM »

Quote from: Danise on November 14, 2004, 04:59:18 PM

I remember all the plastic animals we used. One year, I sat at one end and sent the animals by train to my dad on the other side of the tree. For good or ill, we had a great number of pigs and baby pigs. I kept sending them around and my dad said, "NO MORE PIGS!" Of course, little angel that I was , I kept sending them.

DRDanise, that's very funny. My mother loved decorating for Christmas, too. She started Dec. 1, and went bananas! On the decorating, too.

MBarnum · « **Reply #110 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:09:40 PM »

Jose, have you watched your Bollywood movie yet?

MBarnum · « **Reply #111 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:10:05 PM »

BK, did you watch your Bollywood yet?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #112 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:22:16 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 14, 2004, 04:51:27 PM

I believe there's always some composition work involved in arranging, but Britten, Brahms, and Ives are also master composers, something Sir andrew will never be, and the Theme and variations situation is a knotty one. As opposed to arranging "Moon River" for Liz Callaway, which is a simpler job of composition and arranging, Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Paganini is a masterpiece of composition, as are Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn, the Ives, the Britten and others. Others I love are Mozart's variations on "Ah vous dirai-je Maman, which Dohnanyi also used in his piano-orchestra variations. However, Beethoven, Britten, Haydn, along with Vaughan Williams, Holst, and others also arranged English folksongs, all different and all interesting, and all involving compositional skills (Britten's "Ash Grove" succeeds a lot because of Britten's bi-tonal skills in handling the emotions of the song). Brahms arranged German folksongs, even wrote a song for mezzo-soprano and viola based on the German carol "Joseph lieber, Joseph mein." Now I'm rambling. does this make any sense?

My favorite set of Paganini variations is the set for two pianos composed by Lutoslawski. He eventually rescored/rearranged/recomposed the set for Piano and Orchestra (Peter Jablonsky did the premier recording with Ashkenazy conducting). The orchestral colors are a nice change, but I still prefer the original two-piano version. Unfortunately, most of the recorded versions are played a little too fast for my preference - you can't - well, I can't hear all the wonderful "inner" details. I played the set when I was in college with a studio mate. Very gratifying piano writing.

Oh, and what I find very interesting - and fun - is that most of the "Variations on a Theme of Paganini" are actually variations on the variations since the original violin caprice is a set of theme and variations themselves. The Liszt etudes are a pianistic version of the set, and the aforementioned set by Lutoslawski are likewise.

-Oh, Britten's version of "The Ash Grove"... Very simple and effective. Beautiful. "Salley Gardens" too. Now if folks could just get past the "controversy" surrounding "Little Sir William".

-And those two Brahms songs for mezzo/alto, viola and piano... I may have to pull my Brigitte Fassbender recording off the shelf... Soon...

td · « **Reply #113 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:24:06 PM »

What's the sales count on Writer's Block?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #114 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:26:50 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on November 14, 2004, 05:10:05 PM

BK, did you watch your Bollywood yet?

It is sitting on top of my DVD player as I type this. Now that I actually have a couple of full days off...

Soon... I promise.. (ah, A Little Night Music reference...)

Danise · « **Reply #115 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:35:57 PM »

I was lucky! I found two pictures--old and a bit faded but of the gardens we used to have.

The first picture was of the Manger that my Dad made and the second was of the log house he made.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #116 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:36:15 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 14, 2004, 03:40:06 PM

They still have Blimpie's? I used to eat those all the time when I lived in NY.

There are still some Blimpie's in the DC area, however, some of them are just Blimpie's in name only. They have the Blimpie's sign out front, but that's all that's Blimpie's about the locations. As soon as you step into the locations, there are these big signs informing the customers that this Blimpie is not part of the Blimpie's chain. Therefore, they don't have the same menus, the same promotions, nor do they honor the Blimpie's coupons.

I guess they didn't want to spring for a new sign out front and/or they know the value of name recognition.

It's like those Starbucks locations in malls that are run by the mall's foodservice company and not by Starbucks themselves.

Danise · « **Reply #117 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:36:50 PM »

Here is the log cabin he made from scratch.

bk · « **Reply #118 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:36:59 PM »

So far we've got eight orders - two more can be in the first ten and will be getting a little something special in their books.

bk · « **Reply #119 on:** November 14, 2004, 05:37:19 PM »

Haven't watched the Bollywood yet - will this week, though.

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