Topic: IF YOU ASK ME (Read 30606 times)

JMK · « **Reply #120 on:** December 19, 2004, 03:33:31 PM »

In non-OCR land, Brian found me a sealed copy of either the first or second (can't remember which) Warners release of Quarteto em Cy, when they were recording in the US under the name Girls from Bahia. Luscious, "Lemmon Sisters do Bossa Nova" arrangements by Oscar Castro-Neves (who later married Regina Wernick (sp?) one of the replacement em-Cys

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Jrand74 · « **Reply #121 on:** December 19, 2004, 03:44:18 PM »

Very nice car, MBARNUM. The color is great. How can you afford that car, did a certain magazine finally pay you for those articles they publishes?

td · « **Reply #122 on:** December 19, 2004, 04:07:50 PM »

Didn't Mr. Barnum say that the car's color matches the color of his eyes? Luscious!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #123 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:00:48 PM »

Oh....and congratulations on the successful script, MRBK!

It's the voodoo, I tell ya!

Hisaka · « **Reply #124 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:19:24 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 19, 2004, 10:41:22 AM

Cotton white underpants, always.

Hisaka, are the flowers in your photo from your garden?

As I expected!

Yes, it's my favorite english rose named Evelyn. Its perfume is gorgeous.

Jennifer · « **Reply #125 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:34:42 PM »

Can anyone tell me some good places to buy laptops online. It's a gift. ANd all I know is it needs to have 512 MB ram, Windows HP professional, and celeron wireless monitor. Is this even possible for under $500.

I think I'm in trouble, cause I don't even know how to search for those criteria.

Any help/advice input would be so greatly appreciated.

Btw, almost time for Desperate Housewives! Yeah.

And feel better DR Elmore. And more vibes to DR Jose's father. And great review Jrand. Hopefully I will get on "the list" to get see the dvd.

bk · « **Reply #126 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:36:49 PM »

I inserted two lines from the original '64 Horror of Party Beach - the "voodoo" line and something about doing some "carbon 14 tests" which made me laugh.

Back from Paint Your Wagon - more about that in the notes, but let me just say that I am totally done with revisals - where they don't trust the script, the material or the score and insist on rewriting everything and interpolating songs that just don't belong there. DONE.

Chinese Food - Jose will tell you of the intensive work and good direction this fellow got - I think he "got" the song twice during the entire run, where he just sang it simply and let the lyrics do the work. That's all you ever have to do if you're a good singer - get to the truth of the lyric.

bk · « **Reply #127 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:37:35 PM »

Roses, especially ones named Evelyn, are my favorite flower.

Must get some food down my hungry maw.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #128 on:** December 19, 2004, 05:40:50 PM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on December 19, 2004, 02:57:02 PM

(Speaking of which, I've got a pork roast to get in the oven, before you-know-who starts getting that "feed me" look in his eyes!)

FEED ME! Must be pig, must be roasted, must have roasted potatoes and carrots!

der hungry Brucer -greatly annoyed because that stupid football game throws off the entire Sunday schedule - Cold Case will be frigid by showtime (Fortunately there is a lull before the 10 PM showing of HUFF)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #129 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:01:15 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on December 19, 2004, 05:34:42 PM

Can anyone tell me some good places to buy laptops online. It's a gift. ANd all I know is it needs to have 512 MB ram, Windows HP professional, and celeron wireless monitor. Is this even possible for under $500.

Frankly, my dear, double your budget!

I assume "celeron wireless monitor" means must have a Celeron processor chip and a Wi-FI interface for the modem.

Closest I can find is BestBuy:

Quote

Hewlett-Packard Pavilion Notebook with Intel® Celeron® M Processor 330

Product Features

15" XGA TFT display with 1024 x 768 resolution

60.0GB hard drive (4200 rpm)

Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 with shared video memory; built-in Altec Lansing speakers

2 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer

Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG network connection (802.11b/g); 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector; high-speed 56K modem

Weighs 6.7 lbs. and measures just 1.7" thin for portable power; lithium-ion battery and AC adapter

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating system preinstalled; software package included with Apple® iTunes, RecordNow!, Muvee autoProducer and more

$950.00 - and only HP Home Edition

Sorry

der Brucer

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #130 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:21:25 PM »

Good evening, fellow dear readers.

Well, the Christmas pageant was no the train-wreck I was afraid of. Nothing great, but we got through it.

Tomorrow DR Sandra and I are going to Pasadena to see Plaid Tidings. We hope to meet up with Jay and BK while we are there.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #131 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:21:54 PM »

How did the dinner go, td?

Michael · « **Reply #132 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:40:31 PM »

I would like to remind all DR that Bruce back in 1985 wrote a lovely song called "Waiting For Love" It was recorded by Lisa Richards (not the Dark Shadows actress) on her Virgin Tracks CD from LML cds

Panni · « **Reply #133 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:42:10 PM »

Back from a hard day of exchanging things I got for DD which didn't fit, etc. Going to the mall on the last Sunday before Christmas is perhaps not the best plan in the world. But I want to write all next week, so it was today or no day.
We were supposed to go to GARDEN STATE tonight to see the movie and meet DD's heartthrob Zach Braff, but she's too tired, having just arrived back from Hungary and San Francisco. Fine by me.

Jay · « **Reply #134 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:47:53 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 19, 2004, 01:19:33 PM

How was the Handel last evening? How much did they do?

The Messiah was quite nicely done. The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a very accomplished ensemble, and their contribution to the evening was the highlight, though the four soloists and the Pasadena Symphony were quite strong as well.

How much did we hear? Two numbers were cut from Part I, four from Part II, and four from Part III.

bk · « **Reply #135 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:48:17 PM »

It's actually called When You're Waiting for Love, and it's also been recorded by Debbie Gravitte, as well as been sung by Alet Taylor and Michelle Nicastro (others have done it but I don't remember who).

Michael · « **Reply #136 on:** December 19, 2004, 06:51:18 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 19, 2004, 06:48:17 PM

It's actually called When You're Waiting for Love, and it's also been recorded by Debbie Gravitte, as well as been sung by Alet Taylor and Michelle Nicastro (others have done it but I don't remember who).

Chinese Food in Bed was also on the Cd that had The First Nudie Musical, excerpts from Stages and Spaceship. I have never seen it so I don't know who sings it. I think this is the one cd that I am lacking from Bruce's discography.

Jay · « **Reply #137 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:01:20 PM »

Celebrity encounter alert:

I went to the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles concert this afternoon, and as I entered the courtyard in front of the historic Alex Theatre in beautiful downtown Glendale, where the concert was to be held, whom did I find myself face to face with but Miss Marilyn (known as "Jackie" by her family, friends and adoring fans) Horne! Now or never, I figured, so I introduced myself to her and told her how much I've admired her work over the years. I've known from interviews and hearsay that Miss Horne is a very down to earth and personable individual, but I got proof of this first hand this afternoon, as she introduced me to her sister and granddaughter (or grand-niece, I can't remember which it was right now) and she seemed very happy to chat with me. I mentioned that I was a friend of an aspiring tenor who has studied and continues to study with her, and she immediately got very animated and said how excited she was over his winning the Metropolitan Opera Western regional auditions last month and how she thought a young artists program in Chicago that he'll be starting in the spring would be a terrific experience for him. It was very nice to hear her say that, in her opinion, there's no question that my friend will go far. We also talked a bit about Academy of the West (a summer program in Santa Barbara where Miss Horne heads the vocal department) and how much I loved "The Italian Straw Hat" this past summer.

As we wrapped up, I told her I hoped she enjoyed the concert and as I started to walk away, she called to me and wished me happy holidays.

Isn't that swell? Isn't that too too? Can you help yourself from plotzing when you read a story like that?

Michael · « **Reply #138 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:02:24 PM »

July 18, 2000 Chinese Food In Bed was sung by Stacy Sullivan at the MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) / ASCAP Songwriters' Showcase, including a special tribute to Portia Nelson.

Francis M Hough in his amazon review of the Haines His Way CD calls it "the amusingly melancholy "Chinese Food in Bed" penned by producer/friend Kimmel.."

JMK · « **Reply #139 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:05:50 PM »

I had a dear friend here in Portland named Evelyn. We found out after we had gotten to know each other up here that we had both attended the same Episcopalian parochial school in Salt Lake City as children (though she was quite a bit older than I, so we weren't there simultaneously). Evelyn became a bit of a patron to me in my early 20s and I would frequently find neatly folded $20 bills in my medicine cabinet and other unexpected places that she had left for me to help pay expenses. She also produced "The Pillars of Portland," the first two hour locally produced tv movie ever shown on a network affiliate, for which I provided some of the original score ("Pillars" is discussed in detail in the bestselling book The Sweeps). Evelyn met her true love, a Sikh, in Arizona and she moved there and started a "new age" bookstore with him. Quite unexpectedly she died at a very young age (maybe 55 or so) several years ago. I called her husband, whom I had never met, and relayed many of my favorite Evelyn stories to him, which seemed to touch him deeply. I wrote two songs over the years (both instrumentals) called "Evelyn."

Jay · « **Reply #140 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:05:54 PM »

The Gay Men's Chorus concert was real swell, too. This was their annual holiday concert and they handled the serious pieces (some in very impressive arrangements) very well, and they were quite joyful in the popular and campy songs. As usual, several of the numbers were choreographed, some of them quite hysterically. All around, the concerts by this group are amongst the most enjoyable to be seen and heard by any group in any venue in the Los Angeles area, which is saying a great deal, indeed.

bk · « **Reply #141 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:08:17 PM »

I was at the MAC event when Stacy did the song. I must say the reception was rather amazing, perhaps the best of the evening, if memory serves. Miss Gravitte sings When You're Waiting for Love on the BK cd.

Jay · « **Reply #142 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:09:49 PM »

Hmmm. I just realized that celebrities to some may be unknowns to others. Miss Marilyn Horne is a world renowned mezzo-soprano, who has pretty much given up singing publicly now in favor of teaching. She graced the world's top stages in opera and concert, and was a key force in the revival of the bel canto repertoire in the '60s and '70s. In her younger years, she also provided the singing voice of Miss Dorothy Dandrige in the film version of Carmen Jones.

MBarnum · « **Reply #143 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:18:01 PM »

Quote from: JRand54 on December 19, 2004, 03:44:18 PM

Very nice car, MBARNUM. The color is great. How can you afford that car, did a certain magazine finally pay you for those articles they publishes?

LOL! Not!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #144 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:20:24 PM »

Quote from: Jay on December 19, 2004, 07:05:54 PM

The Gay Men's Chorus concert was real swell, too. This was their annual holiday concert and they handled the serious pieces (some in very impressive arrangements) very well, and they were quite joyful in the popular and campy songs. As usual, several of the numbers were choreographed, some of them quite hysterically. All around, the concerts by this group are amongst the most enjoyable to be seen and heard by any group in any venue in the Los Angeles area, which is saying a great deal, indeed.

DRJay, what a festive day for you! One of my good freinds from New York, now living in LA, sings with the Los Angeles Men's Chorus. While I was out mixing a recording with BK, I met my friend Jim Roman, went to a chorus rehearsal and met their music director. They've performed several pieces of mine during their existence.

I did an arrangement of "Danny Boy" for Marilyn horne and the New York City Gay Men's Chorus in 1990, when she was their guest artist. She is indeed a lovely and kind lady. I don't know if she's singing, but she is appearing in the Kennedy Center Awards to introduce the Joan Sutherland sequence.

An incomplete MESSIAH? What were the missing numbers, pray tell? Did the soprano do "Rejoice Greatly" and if so, did she do the original 12/8 and longer version or the rewrite?

MBarnum · « **Reply #145 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:22:46 PM »

Had lunch with my buddy Mark and his new boyfriend that he met on the internet...who bears a striking resemblence to Dennis Quaid! Very nice guy, I am happy to report and I am sure they will be married by the end of this month.

Then I watched this cute little Bollywood flick...

and then down to Best Buy to have my stereo installed in my car...I am gonna grab some grub and relax in front of the TV now and watch THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY.

MBarnum · « **Reply #146 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:24:18 PM »

Oh, I was also shopping at Fred Meyer's as DR Elmore3003 can attest to! LOL! Didn't buy anything, however.

Jay · « **Reply #147 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:36:54 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 19, 2004, 07:20:24 PM

An incomplete MESSIAH? What were the missing numbers, pray tell?

Cut from Part I:

The people that walked in darkness
For unto us a child is born [The most surprising--and unkindest--cut of all]

Cut from Part II:

Unto which of the angels said He at any time
Let all the angels of God worship Him
Thou art gone up on high
Their sound is gone out into all lands

Cut from Part III:

Then shall be brought to pass
O death, where is thy sting?
But thanks be to God
If God be for us, who can be against us?

Quote from: elmore3003 on December 19, 2004, 07:20:24 PM

Did the soprano do "Rejoice Greatly" and if so, did she do the original 12/8 and longer version or the rewrite?

Dear Reader elmore3003, Dear Dear Reader elmore3003: Though I may be an ardent fan of music, I am neither a musician nor a musicologist. I cannot tell you in what meter the soprano sang, or what version of this air was used.

JMK · « **Reply #148 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:50:19 PM »

Do any of you ever get inexplicable yens to hear something you haven't heard for years? For some reason I started humming the opening theme of Pulcinella today--I know not why. So now I am listening to Stravinsky's own recording. I know a lot of people don't like Stravinsky conducting his own pieces, but I got that huge Sony boxed set for free a few years ago of all of his Columbia recordings.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #149 on:** December 19, 2004, 07:51:48 PM »

Quote from: bk on December 19, 2004, 05:37:35 PM

Must get some food down my hungry maw.

Don't forget to eat some yourself!

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