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THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« on: October 09, 2006, 12:11:58 AM »
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were very choral, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're enjoying their Moo-nday.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2006, 12:14:06 AM »
And the word of the day is: ABSQUATULATE!

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2006, 12:18:08 AM »
Sigh...guess I'll read the notes before I mouth off...

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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2006, 12:21:25 AM »
Mother to exercising teenager early in the morning - forget about your AB SQUAT, U LATE for the bus!

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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2006, 12:31:29 AM »
From the Notes:

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I then took a brisk gog...

...and have started to seriously deciding on material...

Perhaps a nap would help.

Dear BK: Did you like Michael Caine in "The Man Who Would Be King"? I thought he was just peachy.

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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2006, 12:37:00 AM »
TOD

Lets get the obvious out of the way:

Handel's Messiah
Ode to Joy (B's 9th - fourth movement)

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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2006, 12:49:51 AM »
Topic of the Day:  Domenico Scarlatti's Sacred Choral Works.  The reasons:

1)  It's very good
2)  I'm on it!  This was recorded in my last year of college at Western Washington University and I was in the choir.  I don't have any solos (only "real" professional singers were hired for solos), but people have told me that they could hear my voice.  I don't know if that's good or bad, but I took it as a compliment. ;)
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2006, 12:59:27 AM »
And now, I'm going to bed.  Today, all the libraries in our system are closed for "All Staff Training Day."  It's optional (you have to use vacation time if you don't want to go), but we basically just listen to speakers, go to concurrent "training" sessions (usually NOTHING that I have any interest in or has any real relevance to my job ::)) and get paid for a full eight-hour day of work when we really only have to actually be there for seven hours...it also includes an hour and a half paid lunch time AND free lunch!  

So, I'll be gone all day and probably won't be back until after rehearsal tonight.  Have a good one, all!

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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2006, 01:40:39 AM »
TOD: My favorite choral pieces are requiems. Particularly Brahms, Mozart and Verdi.

On Memorial Day there will occasionally be a program of requiems at Carnegie Hall. 3 different conductors, and each piece featuring a massive chorus culled from different universities and other groups around the country.

When I was in college, I used to travel around in a 16 voice chorale and we did many concerts where we combined with other groups in some large cathedral. Nothing like having that combination of voices vibrating through your head and body; almost a religious experience!
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2006, 01:41:26 AM »
Welcome home Cillliaz! I'm sure you have some happy kitties sleeping on you right now!
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« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2006, 01:44:19 AM »
Fantastic photos, Vixmom! I expecially love the one with the skyline in the BG, and Cillaliz at the Lewis Carroll sculpture. (Of course!) As for the "fat" one, it's just the low angle. I'm of an age where I try not to allow that. Only high angle shots for me...particularly from a ladder!
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2006, 04:54:14 AM »
Back from my trip abroad. I hope someone will email me on the highlights of what I missed. 2 weeks + of postings is waaaaaaaaay too much.

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Not familar with enough choral work to have a favorite.
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2006, 05:01:36 AM »
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
But they danced without music
as the band had absquatulated.
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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2006, 05:06:10 AM »
Minnie and Mickey could ABSQUATULATE for days on end on the existance of EQUAL TABUS AT the men's and women's restrooms at Disneyland.

(Not the same def. as used in today's Casey usage.)
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2006, 05:12:44 AM »
I, too, am not that familiar with choral works in the classical sphere.

The closest I can come, off the top of my head, would be "Make Our Garden Grow," from Candide.
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« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2006, 06:08:46 AM »
Good morning, Elmore!
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2006, 06:21:53 AM »
Michael S - Welcome back.  I wouldn't rely on anyone to give you a synposis of the past two weeks.  Last time I was gone for just four days, and decided to pass on a close reading of the posts, some of what i missed came back to haunt me.  

And besides, if you don't read the week of Sept. 24-30, you'll miss the blow-by-blow BK accounts, full of juicy scandal and gossip :) , of his return to the musical stage in the readings of Last Starfighter
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2006, 06:23:43 AM »
Good morning, all!  8:30 sleep-in again!  Perhaps my body is subconsciously adjusting to the time switch?  I have a day planned at home:  laundry first, then brain surgery.  If I get bored with Mr Kimmel (as if!) I can go to the computer and work on my Toyland reports.

The only unaccounted person traveling yesterday is DR jhvw.  Is he safely home?

Last evening, I watched the funniest un-PC Jeeves & Wooster, involving everyone dressed as Minstrels in blackface and terrifying local constabulary who believed the devil was walking the earth.  Hugh Laurie's singing "Lady of Spain" in blackface to the accompaniment of 10 minstrels (all members of the Drones Club) playing banjos was quite funny.

Then I watched a comedy I missed in theatres last spring because of a 3-week trip to Ohio, "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green," which is based on a comic strip by Eric Oren.  The movie is quite rude and very funny, keeping a lot of the comic's spirit.  Meredith Baxter is wonderful as Ethan's mother, and there's a wonderful "Gay Sex & The City meets Georges Feydeau" about the whole thing.

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   Bach:        Christmas Oratoria
   Handel:     Messiah
                    Semele
   Haydn:      The Creation
                    Mass in Time of War
   Mozart:      Requiem
   Mendelssohn: Elijah
   Dvorak:     The Spectre's Bride
                    Stabat Mater
   Brahms:    German Requiem
   Britten:      War Requiem
   Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
                     Les Noces
   Poulenc:     Gloria
   Bernstein:  Chichester Psalms
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2006, 06:24:36 AM »
Quote from: S. Woody White on October 09, 2006, 06:08:46 AM
Good morning, Elmore!

Hewy, Woody!  Have a wonderful day.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2006, 06:38:14 AM »
Thanks for the pix, DRVIXMOM!  It was wonderful to see everyone having such a good time!  And the locations were divoon!
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« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2006, 06:42:43 AM »
Oh yes, DREDISAURUS, those scenes in IMITATION OF LIFE you mentioned were heart-rending!  As one reviewer said, Lana and Sandra cry and cry, but Juanita and Susan make US cry.

And of course, Susan's room mate in the hotel in the "mammy" scene is none other than Ann Robinson, leading lady in WAR OF THE WORLDS.  And the wooden boxes in the alley in the scene where poor Susan is beaten up by Troy Donahue contain are the ones that contained the interocitor shipment in THIS ISLAND  EARTH (check the company name stencilled on them).
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2006, 06:44:08 AM »
TOD:

The Messiah - whew!  

My favorite to listen to on CD - maybe I will hear some of it someday...is Orff's CARMINA BURANA.

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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2006, 07:00:08 AM »
Re: last night's BROTHERS and SISTERS (spoilers).


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I too enjoyed this episode the most of the ones so far.

I think the best part came when sally field got up at the dinner party and announced what she did. IT was so great (and unexpected to me).

I really like calista and i like the cast. And the show has gotten better. But it's still not one of my favorite new shows, in fact it's probably my worst.
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« Reply #23 on: October 09, 2006, 07:02:18 AM »
I also finally saw the first 2 episodes of HEROES.

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I do really like this show. It took me a while to like it. At half way through the first episode i was not sure.

But the thing that turned me around was the last scenes of episode one, plus the great promo preview they did for coming this season. That promo was so interesting and fascinating. And it made me really want to see the upcoming episodes.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2006, 07:07:01 AM »
DR Elmore, I called jhvw when I returned to terra firma and he was about 2 or 3 mile from his parents' house where he had to stop to trade cars (he drove his dad's to Kansas City and left his at their house). So I would assume he is home safe and sound and probably snoring right now.  He doesn't have to be at work until 3:00 PM
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« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2006, 07:08:48 AM »
Michael S Welcome home.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #26 on: October 09, 2006, 07:11:02 AM »
I am NOT so happy about no mail, either, DRMATTH - I was happier when I was a state employee and this was a DAY OFF!

Which reminds me of a joke about Catherine the Great's schedule -

Monday - Romanoff
Tuesday - Ivanoff
Wednesday - Klingoff
Thursday - Baronoff
Friday - Nazimoff
Saturday - Day Off
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2006, 07:11:08 AM »
Quote from: JRand56 on October 09, 2006, 06:44:08 AM
TOD:

The Messiah - whew!  

My favorite to listen to on CD - maybe I will hear some of it someday...is Orff's CARMINA BURANA.



How could I miss CARMINA BURANA?  What a great work!  Unfortunately, its two sequels CATULLI CARMINA and TRIONFO DI AFRODITE are not so much fun.
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2006, 07:12:26 AM »
Quote from: JRand56 on October 09, 2006, 07:11:02 AM
I am NOT so happy about no mail, either, DRMATTH - I was happier when I was a state employee and this was a DAY OFF!

Which reminds me of a joke about Catherine the Great's schedule -

Monday - Romanoff
Tuesday - Ivanoff
Wednesday - Klingoff
Thursday - Baronoff
Friday - Nazimoff
Saturday - Day Off

And as a result, she was a victim of that Russian VD, rochakokoff!
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Re:THE MONDAY THAT WAS A DAY
« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2006, 07:12:55 AM »
Pictures DR MS...Pictures!

Yesterday's posts had some great pics from the HHW NYC gathering for Fall of 2006 posted by DR VIXMOM.

But if you don't scroll back a few days, you will miss some really cute pics of DRJANE's new doggie, Sherlock.

Thanks for the link, DRMARIA.  Interesting sounding film.  And congrats on your Canadian honor!  Any tv news coverage?  Are you a celebrity north of the border?
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